I helped a bloke install gentoo a few months ago. We downsized his reiser filesystemed suse install beforehand using the system rescue cd. It screwed the filesystem - it was unrecoverable. be warned.
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:00:10 -0400 John Dangler wrote: > Joe~ > Thanks for the reply. I was reading the information on the system rescue > site (from your last reply), and I think this could work fine. I'm reading > through the rest of the documentation to see how to use this to perform > backups. I did notice that SystemRescueCd is currently using a 2.4 kernel. > Have you seen any hiccups using this with a much more current kernel > release? (Mine is 2.6.12-r9) > > John D > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PartImage and SystemRescueCd (Was: RE: [gentoo-user] what's > next) > > On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote: > > I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but > > SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't. > > a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running? > > b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your gentoo > > install after these? (dependency / reverse dependency problems) > > > > Thanks for the input, I appreciate it! > > There's really not much use for installing partimage on Gentoo since > partimage > cannot backup or restore mounted file systems. Unless you want to setup a > partimage server for other pc's to use, or backup partitions from other > operating systems while running Gentoo. > > SystemRescueCd is an iso file, you use it to burn a bootable cd to perform > misc tasks on your pc. Basically, for partimage use... you boot from the > cd, > mount a partition to write the backup images to and run partimage. > > Highly recommended: http://www.partimage.org/doc/index.html > > -jm > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
