Re: backing up and rebuilding the kernel
Hi!
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001, JACKSON, DEAN wrote:
> Right I have just spent the last 3 evenings building a debian server (much
> to my fiancés disgust)
> it has 2 hard drives a 2gb and a 18gb all the system files are mounted on
> the 2 gb(sda1) /home is mounted on the 18gb(sdb2) (swap is sda1)
>
> what is the easiest way to back up the system files (2gb sda1) to a single
> file on the 18gb/home (so it can be backed up onto a tape drive one day)
> and also if I need to restore what is the best way? a bulk restore would be
> required to get the system back to how it is now/when I last backed it up
>
> I need to do this as I am a constant fiddler and newbie so I cock up
> regularly and do not know how to undo what ive done sometimes. and the next
> task involve a kernel re-build to enable dual processor support (smb) and im
I think you mean 'smp': Symmetric MultiProcessor
> scared just thinking about it so any advice here would be nice. all I want
> to do is add smb can I do this without deleting anything I already
> have?(newbie not sure exactly what ive got but it works!)
>
Look into kernel-package as means of automating kernel installation
(pay special attention to using 'Flavours' or renaming
'/lib/modules/<your present version>' if you are installing the same
kernel version as already on your system). Info is available in
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/. As with anything involving a lilo
flash of your MBR, you probably want to have a rescue floppy available
to boot your machine in case anything really bad occurs.
There's not too much you should have to worry about as far as deleting
anything by doing this, especially if you carefully read (mutltiple
times, for my first time at least) the relevant documentation.
Hope this helps,
Daniel
>
>
> Dean Jackson
> TeleWare
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> Telephone 01908 251474
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Daniel A. Freedman
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Cornell University
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