First ... Sorry for attaching this to another thread... brain fart. Second. I'll
look at partimage. Since the original drive is Rieser I may be limited.
Thanks
James
On 19 Mar 2002 19:10:30 +1100
Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well Ghost is not just for the Windows world. It certainly handles
> ext2. You may like to contact me off list for more specific info on
> that.
>
> There is also partimage, which I think is supposed to handle Reiser and
> maybe others. I couldn't get it to recognise any of mine though, but I
> didn't perservere beyond a quick look.
>
> Brian
>
> On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 16:44, James wrote:
> > Ok I took the plunge and bought a monster drive today. Which means 3 4 gig and
>one 6 gig drive can semi retire (one retired itself that's why I took the plunge)
>What I'm hoping is that there is a way to clone the drive that has my / and /boot
>partitions. (I'm keeping the 6 as /home for myself alone) In the windwoze world
>there is ghost. Is there anything like that in Linux? Searches on Freshmeat and
>google haven't turned up anything in English. (or even french or german that I can
>half way muddle through) Anyone here have an answer to how to clone the drive so that
>I do not have to reconfigure/install the whole mess (*grin*) all over again. I'm
>kinda racing the clock on this drive as it's about 4 years old and starting to get a
>bit cranky.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:52:22 -0600
> > Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I can use ppp being root on my Mandrake 8.2 RC1 box, but not from
> > > user accounts. I am using wvdial. I was able to do this before I
> > > upgraded from 8.1, but I do not remember what I did to make it work
> > > from user accounts on 8.1. I have tried this:
> > >
> > > a+rx /usr/sbin/{pppd,chat}
> > > chmod a+rw /dev/tts/LT0 (My Lucent based WinModem)
> > > chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
> > >
> > > but it doesn't work. I get the message:
> > >
> > > "Cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy" using wvdial from
> > > user accounts.
> > >
> > > What am I missing?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > --
> > > Christian Dysthe
> > > http://www.dysthe.net
> > > ICQ: 3945810
> > > Registered Linux User #228949
> > >
> > > "Everybody ought to have a Lower East Side
> > > in their life"
> > >
> > > -Irving Berlin-
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
>
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>
>
>
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