In my experience, Norton Ghost 2001 kicks butt over the latest version of
DriveCopy (which is what I used to recommend). I've had no trouble with
Ghost 2001 and Win2K or Linux like I was having with DriveCopy.
Just my humble opinion... :-)
Aaron D. Priest
Coastal Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.retirequickly.com/70700
http://www.wlpn.com/?70700
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esten N Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 10:21
Subject: FW: [Cooker-firewall] no admin account on 486-66/20MB/329MB install
> After doing more experimentation, it is apparent that the problem is
caused
> by insufficient space on the hard drive, to successfully complete the
> installation.)
>
> (Incidentally, I gave up on the 486 for other unrelated difficulties,
namely
> its lack of PCI slots caused me to need to use troublesome network cards.
I
> have a 100BT hub, and the only 100BT capable ISA NIC I could get cheaply
was
> difficult to get the system to recognize.)
>
> Using either a 329MB or a 630MB hard drive, the same problem I had on the
> 486 turned up on a Pentium 120. (Primary indication was failure to create
> the admin account.) But when I tried installing on the next biggest drive
I
> had available (2.5GB), the installation was fine.
>
> I then looked at the space allocated and used after the installation on
the
> 2.5GB drive, and determined that it was around 250MB not counting the swap
> space. df didn't show my swap space, but with my 64MB memory I had used
> about 77MB swap space on the 2.5GB drive, so I'm guessing it was in that
> ballpark. That would mean that around 327MB would be actually used, after
> installation.
>
> I couldn't find any statements of the minimum requirements of the cooker
> firewall. The 329MB drive looks too borderline to consider making work,
but
> I hoped that I could figure out how to make the 630MB drive work.
>
> I've tried partitioning the 630MB drive manually during the installation
> process, and sizing each partition to a size that was proportionally equal
> to that allocated automatically for the 2.5GB drive, but of course of left
> 77MB for swap and made sure that none were less than the space actually
used
> by the files (as determined from the successful installation on the 2.5GB
> drive).
>
> That didn't work. I kept getting errors during the install, seems like it
> was a ldconfig error or something like that. I'm guessing that more space
is
> needed somewhere during installation.
>
> I tried copying the partitions to the smaller drive using PowerQuest
> DriveCopy v2.0, but that program only sees two partitions and doesn't
> comprehend the actual space used, so it can't do the job. (I've used
> DriveCopy successfully before on disks with FAT partitions, and I believe
> that for FAT and maybe some other Windows file systems, it could have
> managed such a copy.)
>
> So my first question for this group is: is there a reasonable way to copy
> all the files from the cooker firewall as installed on a larger drive
(such
> as the 2.5GB), to a smaller drive (such as the 630MB drive); and have as a
> result a functional system on the smaller drive?
>
> My second question is: are there plans to improve the installation process
> so that one could install with the normal procedure, on a small drive?
>
> thanks,
> Esten Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Esten N
> Porter
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 4:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker-firewall] no admin account on 486-66/20MB/329MB install
>
>
> I've installed beta 4 using cookfire-1.0beta4.i386.iso, on a Pentium
> 120/32MB, and am currently using that setup with a DSL connection.
>
> I've also installed it on a Celeron 400/64MB, and am now trying the same
> image on a 486-66/20MB. On the Celeron 400/64MB system I used gui mode
fine,
> but realized even with the Pentium 120/32MB system I needed text mode to
get
> the install to complete reliably. And I'm only trying text mode with the
> 486/20MB system.
>
> I'm having a showstopper problem on the 486 in that the admin account
can't
> login locally, and apparently doesn't even get created. The general user
> account does get created. The hard drive is a 329MB IDE.
>
> Esten
>
>
>
