[TriLUG] New Thinkpad T23!

[Timothy A. Chagnon]

Tom:
	I'm not familiar with G4U or if this will be helpful, but I think I
remember being able to loop mount a dd image of a partition (use -o loop
with mount).  That way you'd be able to check that all your files are
there etc.  --Tim

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 14:39, Tom Bryan wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 January 2003 09:43 pm, Jason Tower wrote:
> > if your thinkpad has onboard ethernet, probably the easiest thing to do is
> > to image the entire hard drive with G4U (get it from freshmeat), that way
> > you always restore it if necessary.  it's an all-or-nothing affair, but
> > it's completely safe and if you totally screw things up it allows you to
> > restore the disk to it's previous state with ease.  i use it all the time
> > for stuff like this.
> Cool.  I remember that the guys at my last job rolled their own floppy distro 
> based on tomsrtbt to do something like this.  
> 
> I ran it (had to set up an FTPD first...used a guest wu-ftpd account), and I 
> now have a 10+ GB gzip file on my main workstation.  The only problem is that 
> I have nowhere to test that I can recover it. :-/  I'm especially concerned 
> because I let it run for a few hours, and when I came back, it had some 
> warnings on the screen.  I found most of them in the msgbuf file before 
> shutting down G4U.  The scary parts were the dd error and the rm "not found" 
> error.  If you've run G4U before, does this look normal (mostly pasted from 
> msgbuf)?  It's encouraging that the drive is a "30 GB drive," and the final 
> dd output indicates that over 30,000,000,000 bytes were transferred.

--Timothy A. Chagnon <tchagnon at nc.rr.com>