The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the
laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but
I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network.
Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In that case, setting up a
wired network
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:05:31 -0800, Grant wrote:
The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot
from a live CD and copy it with rsync or that tar+ssh hack.
The problem with booting into the LiveCD is I can't get on the
network. I don't have a crossover cable to
Hi Grant,
on Saturday, 2007-01-27 at 09:34:47, you wrote:
The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the
laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but
I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network.
Hum...that's pretty much a show
The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the
laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but
I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network.
Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In that case, setting up a
wired network (if they
On 28 January 2007 19:15, Grant wrote:
The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the
laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but
I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network.
Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In
On 1/28/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the
laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but
I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network.
Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In
All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over
the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the
laptop after reformatting it. Is buying the laptop hard drive adapter
the only way?
- Grant
On 1/26/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really appreciate
I really appreciate all the advice. I have about 11 of 12 GBs copied
from the laptop to the desktop system now via the tar|ssh method so I
guess I'll let that complete. Once it's done, how can I move the data
back over the network to the reformatted laptop?
Well, tar|ssh simply done the
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:38, Grant wrote:
All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over
the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the
laptop after reformatting it. Is buying the laptop hard drive adapter
the only way?
Please try not to top
All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over
the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the
laptop after reformatting it. Is buying the laptop hard drive adapter
the only way?
Please try not to top post in this ML.
Sorry about that. In
Hello,
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:51:48AM -0800, Grant wrote:
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch
and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
I would try putting it all
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch
and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD
--emptytree
Grant wrote:
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch
and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch
and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD
--emptytree
Grant wrote:
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
scratch
and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
scratch
and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD
Grant wrote:
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the
/dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
scratch
and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's
re-installed?
I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:38:23 -0800, Grant wrote:
All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over
the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the
laptop after reformatting it.
The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot from
a
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:09:22 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot from
a live CD and copy it with rsync or that tar+ssh hack.
And as your laptop's drive may not be trustworthy, I'd run rsync a second
time, immediately after the first.
Hmmm - sounds like its seen 868 read/write errors. However to advise you
better we need to see the output. I suspect it is huge because there are
error details for each of the 868 errors. How about post the first 200
lines of the smartctl output to the list?
Here are the first 91 lines. After
All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over
the network. I still don't see how I can move the data back to the
laptop after reformatting it.
The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot from
a live CD and copy it with rsync or that tar+ssh
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the
/dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
scratch
and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's
re-installed?
I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge
On 1/28/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did just try chrooting into my laptop's /dev/hda3 copy on my desktop
system with:
chroot /home/grant/hda3 /bin/bash
and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from
On 1/28/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't checked the laptop drive yet. Can I make a smartmontools
package for the x86 laptop on the amd64 desktop? How can I do that?
- Grant
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
... that could also possibly explain why vim is dying, if
I did a fresh format and install with the GTK installer from a LiveCD
and on the second boot errors are detected in the file system. I
guess it's over for this drive?
If its within its warranty, send it back and ask for a replacement.
Make sure try get a technical explanation of what exactly
Grant wrote:
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Well - although says its passed - if you run any of the self-tests I
would expect to see a change to 'failed'. You might want to run the
'short' or 'long' tests (-t short or -t long)
My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system
via tar and ssh. I generally have to run rc on the desktop system
periodically to make sure network-dependent services are still running
as the desktop sometimes loses the wireless connection temporarily.
When I ran rc this
I used Ctrl+Alt+Fn to determine that the sizes of the copied
directories on the desktop system do seem to correspond with their
original sizes on the laptop so that's good.
How should I copy the data from the desktop system back to the laptop?
After the data is copied to the desktop, I'll make
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:47:51 -0800, Grant wrote:
My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system
via tar and ssh. I generally have to run rc on the desktop system
periodically to make sure network-dependent services are still running
as the desktop sometimes loses the
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Grant wrote:
How should I copy the data from the desktop system back to the laptop?
After the data is copied to the desktop, I'll make new filesystems on
the laptop's partitions, so how can I get the data back to the laptop?
You could use netcat,
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:47:51 -0800, Grant wrote:
My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system
via tar and ssh. I generally have to run rc on the desktop system
periodically to make sure network-dependent services are still running
as the desktop
Hi Grant,
on Friday, 2007-01-26 at 09:47:51, you wrote:
My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system
via tar and ssh.
That's good. dd would be easier on the HD in case it's breaking but if you have
a filesystem
error you'd still have to fix that after copying back. If
I really appreciate all the advice. I have about 11 of 12 GBs copied
from the laptop to the desktop system now via the tar|ssh method so I
guess I'll let that complete. Once it's done, how can I move the data
back over the network to the reformatted laptop?
- Grant
On 1/26/07, Matthias Bethke
Hello, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to find that it
no longer boots. It initially hung on starting hald, and once I
prevented hald from starting it hung on gdm, and once I prevented gdm
from starting I could log in as root but vi failed with a Bus error.
I booted a LiveCD,
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Grant wrote:
Hello, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to find that it
no longer boots. It initially hung on starting hald, and once I
prevented hald from starting it hung on gdm, and once I prevented gdm
from starting I could log
Hi Grant,
on Thursday, 2007-01-25 at 08:20:37, you wrote:
I successfully wrote an iso of some important files after booting up
normally (minus hald, X, and vi) so that's good. Is there a utility I
can run on the disk to see if there is permanent damage? Should I try
re-emerging packages that
I ran 'fsck -t ext3 /dev/hda3' and it detected and corrected a bunch
of stuff. After that, /bin/bash was missing so I copied it from a
LiveCD and now it's behaving exactly as it was before I ran fsck.
Do you know of any way to try and bring the hard drive in its current
form back to full
On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:28, Grant wrote:
Matthias,
I just realized that I still have a network connection with the laptop
so I should be able to move its data to my desktop machine across the
network as you suggest. Can you recommend the best way to move
/dev/hda3 and /dev/hda1
dd if=/dev/hda3 bs=some_large_value | bzip2 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat
/suitable/path/to/hda3.img.bz2
Or, if you can mount the partition, you can use tar:
tar -cjvf - /mount/point/ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /some/path ; tar -xjvf -
you could also use netcat to transfer the files instead
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