On Friday 28 Feb 2003 5:58 pm, you wrote:That's substancially right, it can also be used to install gentoo's OS . I don't know
I see - so this is a cut-down Gentoo to provide the platform + partimage. It's downloading now, so we'll see how I go.Anne Wilson wrote: >On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 6:05 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: >>OK , I attatch the file for everone >> >>John > >John, I'm really confused by this. First, I don't understand where
Gentoo
>comes into the equation? You give the Gentoo url, then say download
the iso
>from the partimage website. > >On the partimage website I could not see what you were recommending to >download. > >There is an rpm for partimage on the distro, so what made you choose to >download another? > >Having installed the rpm from Mandrake, I could quite happily use it
as it
>stands, *except* that I can't see how the bootable image disk is made,
and
>without it I can't see a restore being possible. > >I'm used to DriveImage, so I understand the process - I just can't see
how it
>fits together with PartImage. > >Anne
http://www.partimage.org/download.php3 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/ x86/livecd/gentoo-basic-x86-1.4_rc2.iso
This download site is always busy, so chuck it into d4x and get it ti do a mirror search and choose one of them. I found several only just at the moment d4x seems unable to find any
John
I suppose you haven't yet seen a gento -basic-X86-1.4-rc2 boot disc. It's basically a 38 MB programme that creates for you a kernel for the purpose of loading into memory along with other programmes like partimage. You run the disc to the prompt and run the programme you want in our case partimage which is on the disc as well as other programmes, like fdisk or cfdisk. Like Partition Magic uses a boot floppy and a programme floppy, Gentoo uses a Boot CD with partimage on it .
Anne
anything about that aspect, never having seen or heard of it before, but the gentoo boot
disc which this is creates a kernel for your computer and you then go on to download
the OS directory off the net, whether that download is a download of a whole bunch of
rpm's which then have to be manually installed or whether you are in fact downloading
and installing the binaries I don't know. Anyway we are interested in this Gentoo basic
boot version for the purpose of creating a working kernel and installing partimage
for backup purposes. Once the kernel is configured, it's quite quick, the kernel and partimage
are loaded into memory, like all the best image backup programmes. That leaves you free
to do anything to anything partition wise, with the added advantage for those who require
it you can configure an internet connection and install image files over the net.
John
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