: "Rute Truffle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: drive mirroring
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:16:07 -0000."
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:03:50 -0400
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yes, i was going to recommend this myself.
i use slack 7.1 bootdisks for a lot of stuff. it only requires 2 floppies and you get
a basic system up and going to do whatever you want with.
all you have to is boot like your going to setup slackware, just never run the 'setup'
program (you have to explicitly type 'setup' on a cmdline to do so, at least w/ slack
7.1). at that point, one could mkdir /hd1; mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /hd1 and traverse
the file system to grab files off of it or whatnot, or rerun lilo, or whatever.
anyway, if the slackware floppies dont include dd, it should be a trivial act making a
third floppy which contains this (and maybe other) needed utilities. doing so this way
has a couple advantages. for one, you don't even need to mount the drives, thus saving
you from having open files on the source drive. secondly, you're not going to be
running much of -anything- off of that setup, so all of your processor cycles can be
used for copying the drive/partition/whatever and should thus go fairly fast.
good luck,
-tom
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