On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:58:48PM +0200, sara fink wrote: > > I want to boot a livecd, and use dd to create image of asus eee 901 which > > has 2 partitions of ntfs (in total 12gb). > > Why would that require ntfs support? The laptop came with windows xp home. I want to backup all the stuff (drivers specific to this asus eee) before I connect the laptop to the internet. The partitions are ntfs and the backup hd is also ntfs. I tried some livecd distributions and they didnt come with ntfs support. > > > And even if you did want to mount that partition, you could easily > include the ntfs module in the initrd. On a Debian system you can force > including a module in the initrd by adding it to > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules . But this is if I install the distribution? I just want to boot from livecd, dd to iso and burn the iso. Will install first of all, a normal windows system and after windows will finish the duties, will wipe it and install linux. > > > Slightly more efficiant (and maybe more portable) than dd would be to > use partimage. Partimage backs up only the blocks from a partition that > contain useful information. partimage 0.6.7 which I have on my system > (Debian Lenny) lists NTFS partition support as "experimental" in its > README. I want to backup everything. Maybe I will find surprises after that. > > > And if you want to create your own: CD/USB > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive I want to create a cd of my own after that, but it will be a windows one, at the begining. > > You can use that to either customize the initrd or create an initrd with > your custom kernel. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best > ICQ# 16849754 | | friend > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
