Today I lost completly my Linuxsystem. I lost system on my HDD, which I was
aware because of the experiments I did, and the Image I made with Norton
Ghost 2001 reported an internal inkonsistent fileerror. Good bye
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron D. Priest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker-firewall] no admin account on 486-66/20MB/329MB install
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
