Rapidweather
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Posted: Jan. 31 2004,22:56 |
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Sorry I did not get back in here sooner, I was busy putting DSL on other machines. Also, I'll have to admit I have been wandering around in this board, posting in several locations.
The Laptop was a Toshiba 4015CDS, and it came with Window 98, in one partition, vfat.
I had no idea that the Flash Drives were so delicate. I use mine to restore Mozilla Firebird, and other files and configs such as the fluxbox menu, my .blackboxrc and my web page files that I am working on.
For some strange reason (I don't understand) I could not get the USB drive to work if formatted as vfat, so being a linux fan, I decided to use /ext2, and that worked. I have just today used the drive to restore on a new install, to a two month old Dell, with all the bells and whistles. I had to use
#knoppix vga=normal
to get the LCD screen to respond.
That install is successful, except for the modem being a winmodem.
I can boot off the cd, or a floppy, and then restore Mozilla, etc. from the USB drive, after I mount it. The little drive seems to work on all machines with USB ports that I have encountered. (As long as I mount it first).
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I have been working to revise the restore/backup script (filetool.sh) to allow a backup from a hard drive, but have found that to need a primary partition to work in, other than the one that /knoppix is in. I have usually copied my CDROM's /knoppix folder to the hard drive and run off a boot floppy, as I do not have cdrom drives on all machines. I use a backpack drive to do the copying. The one approach that I use is found in this menu:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/fluxbox_menu_2
That works, and I use it all the time. It only restores /MozillaFirebird, however. The actual script, if I can get it working, would be stored on a floppy, and upon first bootup of DSL, I mount the floppy, and then run the filetool.sh script.
#filetool.sh restore
I find that won't work on logical partitions, so I need to set it up on a box with at least two primary partitions. The menu example shows I can partly restore from /dev/hdb1, too if a second hard drive is installed. I just make a /DSL folder there, and copy the /MozillaFirebird directory there, and my menu takes care of getting it back each time.. Problem is, I want to not have to restore with a floppy, to get my menu, and then get the /Mozilla Directory from the hard drive. I'd like to do a complete restore from the hard drive, my menu, and Moz, too. I do have a machine here that has three partitions, Windows, SuSE, and Linux Swap. I'll see what I can do to get a floppy with a filetool.sh and a filetool.lst on it (just those two ought to do it), and restore/backup to my /dev/hda2 partition. I suppose the root "/" in the SuSE filesystem will be where the backup.tar.gz will wind up, and perhaps the filetool.lst will have to be there also.
I work with a lot of computers that do not have USB ports, or for that matter, CDrom drives.
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Since the USB memory sticks have some durability issues, maybe setting up the restore on the hard drive is not such a bad idea. I think I heard that SuSE live does that too., but I only have an older SuSE that isn't a live cd. (I don't know how they do it)
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Some of the elements of my menu's would be useful if DSL had them on first
bootup, mainly, the Floppy and USB mounts. 
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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html
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