On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Word Wizard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have two SATA drives (data and backup) in addition to the primary SATA > drive which houses two ext3 partitions (/ and /home) plus a swap partition. > Nothing else on that primary SATA drive. I only back up the primary SATA and > as a newbie I presume hd0 is the place for the boot record. > > Using GParted, I find this drive is partitioned so: > > /dev/sda2 > > Subdivided into > > /dev/sda6 / > > /dev/sda7 /home > > /dev/sda5 swap > > > /dev/sda1 is not mentioned. Where should the grub setup command point to? > hd0? hd0,1? The Oort Cloud? > > Your suggestion about using dd confuses me. Will this generate a second > file that should be kept with the tar file? Appended to it somehow? How do I > use it > > This very frustrating for a newbie who wants to learn an alternative to the > Totalitarian Microsoft Machine (sigh). > > Thank you > > Sorry, I didn't see the newbie designation. If I were to tell a newbie how to backup his system, I would tell him to back up any files he had personally created. Then reinstall the system from the install disks as he did originally , and then copy back onto the disk the files you backed up. I would never ever tell a newbie to edit his grub menu.lst or to touch tar. Those things can burn you and you should feel that your not a newbie before you touch them. To remove yourself from the state you are in, just reinstall from the installation disks, untar your backup file in some temporary directory and copy the files you need back into the fresh installation. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
