I seem to have broken my mondo. i got it to work once, now it keeps telling me my setup isn't sane, i need to install buffer, and my cdrw is mounted. (well... buffer's installed, my cdrw is not mounted... sanity is questionable though. ROFL) all just another interesting chapter to add. drakbackup doesn't seem to be any kind of backup that i want.. and backuponcd just plain doesn't work. hahahaha... impossible if you ask me, to get any kind of backup like you'd get on a MS system though it'd sure be nice to get mondo to work again.. closest i could get. As often as i'm messing up my system it'd be good to have some kind of regular setup backed up i could just pop in the cd and it copies it all automatically since i'm still learning how to do things and breaking my system so often.
SO... my new question is this... is it possible to install 2 instances of mandrake on a single hard drive? one that i can use as my regular OS and only add the things i need and have tested and work, and one to mess around with? i'm just not sure how i'd make the mount point / twice? or would i have to have it installed on two hard drives? (and would that even work?) I'd really like to have 3-4 to be able to try out other distros (even though i keep coming back to mandrake) any help appreciated. Jerry. On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:25, Derek Jennings wrote: > SNIP > > > Well in the case of Mondo the first CD in the set it creates is a > > > bootable CD with its own mini Linux distro on it. You just boot > > > from that CD and then you can restore partions,directories or the > > > entire installation. Trouble with Mondo is it needs 7 CD's for my > > > system so I cannot be bothered running it very often. > > > > Now that explains it. > > I've downloaded and installed Mondo and Mini, (I though this was a > > Robbin Williams joke , at first) Have yet to create the bootdisks, I > > assume like the others backup programmes of this type you can do the > > whole lot in this mode, if you want, which would mean that once you > > have created the CD then you could remove the programme from desktop > > if you so wish. However from my point of view this seems to have the > > two obvious poor points that it is both commandline only,and more > > importantly ,has poor compression, but it's not to be ruled out. > > > SNIP > > Mondo actually does quite good compression. You can set it for up to 7 levels > of compression. I think my problem is in defining the partitions to back up. > I think it tries to back up my Windows partition as well which in turn has a > backup image of my sons computer. (He is still in 'transit' from Windows to > Linux) Its hard to know with Mondo what it is going to backup until it > actually does it. I am clearly doing something wrong since even by excluding > almost every directory in sight it still makes a backup of 5 CDs > > derek > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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