On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:44:37 -0700
Ian Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:03, David A. Bandel wrote:
snips
cpio has always had the advantage that it will grab
special files that tar won't.
What format is best for cpio, or does it matter? I see the default is
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:23:59 +1000
Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry this is really M$ related but:
I had a customer with a constant rebooting machine, which we found was
a motherboard problem, PSU was fine and also switch was. So I used the
latest Gigabyte motherboard as a
Just a recent bad experience using Knoppix to recover data.
I recently used Knoppix to recover data on my dual boot machine when my
lindows installation got whacked when XP crashed. (It was curious. The
lindows boot process just seemed to end very prematurely as shown in
messages but the thing
Keith Antoine wrote inter alia:
Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and fixmbr
it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the motherboard, could
this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way to fix without losing all
the data? It looks to me as if
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:03 am, David A. Bandel wrote:
AFAIK, ftp wasn't designed for recursive transfers. For that, I would
use rsync. That said, I use cpio to grab directories/disks. Generally,
I create a TOC using find, then cat that TOC through cpio with all the
appropriate switches.
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:17 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
Keith Antoine wrote inter alia:
Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and
fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the
motherboard, could this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:41:48 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
professed:
What we do have in Australia is electronic tax, that has to be sent
quarterly, its like a VAT system. It is for windows only and installs
ONLY on C drive, typical Govt program, so I cannot get rid of windows
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:03, David A. Bandel wrote:
snips
cpio has always had the advantage that it will grab
special files that tar won't.
What format is best for cpio, or does it matter? I see the default is
'bin', but that bin is also obsolete. Is ustar better?
thanks,
--
Ian Stephen
Sorry this is really M$ related but:
I had a customer with a constant rebooting machine, which we found was a
motherboard problem, PSU was fine and also switch was. So I used the latest
Gigabyte motherboard as a replacement GA-700N-400Pro, which was an advanced
board on the older 333
