On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:07:40PM -0600 or thereabouts, Paul E Condon wrote:An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo Archive, which is software that builds self-booting restore CDs for Linux systems. So, I started to try to use it. I found a debian package in Woody, and did the standard apt-get ... . I had mostly no problem understanding the man page. But some puzzles lead me to look at the Mondo web site, and ...
I found the woody package to contain an error that was fixed in the upstream source a while back: when you've backed up to an ISO image and burned that to CD, it wants to read 1.iso from the CD-ROM on restore.
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And if not true, who, on this list has experience? Is there a different Debian list where I should be going for help on this particular package?
As others have already noted, Hugo found Debian a little difficult to begin with. I have successfully used mindi-0.94_cvs_20030924.tgz and mondo-1.74.tgz yesterday to backup and restore an IDE system with ext3 and reiserfs partitions. However, LVM is not supported yet, as that seems to be set up in a different way in Debian than in other distros. I hope the mindi development team will get around to extending mindi appropriately (as the Debian behaviour doesn't appear to be a debianism). Hopefully, Hector will be able to create suitable Debian packages for the distribution.
Cheers, Tobias