Dexter Filmore wrote: > Before I start hacking away on myself, maybe there's a ready-to-rock package > I > don't know about: > > Need a backup for a computer illiterate (pushing 70, has desktop icons that > link to google, searches for company.com there and clicks the first hit > instead of typing company.com into the url bar). > > Recently his Win XP bought the farm, no way of rescueing, tried to ressurect > an old save point but no matter who I asked or what I did, seems you can only > revert to a save point when you have a halfway running system on disk. Thanks > MS. > Now, to prevent such situations in the future, I installed Linux in the last > part of the disk and gave printed instructions on how to make a backup of > Windows. Includes a rough script I hacked up, needs touchup anyway. dd's the > win part thru gzip and splits it basically. > > What I'd like a lot more was two GRUB entries "save windows" and "restore > windows" and they should ask about where to/from save/restore, scan for > external usb disks etc etc. > Is there something like that already or is it bash hacking time? >
I suppose the init script in the initrd image could manage the jobs you mention? Probably more versatile and easier to debug is to just append your own options to the kernel line in the grub menu and check /proc/cmdline in the booted linux. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
