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Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: |
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>> Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and |
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>> could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so |
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>> something to boot from would be nice. |
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> Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue makes the first backup CD bootable, |
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> using a mini kernel and distro called mindi. |
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> You can even restore an entire system from scratch, using the "barebones |
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> (nuke) restore". Read the docs for more info. |
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Well, this sucks. |
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> >>> Downloading 'http://adelie.polymtl.ca/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz' |
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> --07:14:12-- http://adelie.polymtl.ca/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz |
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> => `/usr/portage/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz' |
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> Resolving adelie.polymtl.ca... 132.207.4.160 |
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> Connecting to adelie.polymtl.ca|132.207.4.160|:80... connected. |
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> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content |
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> Length: 2,130,907 (2.0M), 1,026,811 (1003K) remaining [application/x-gzip] |
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> |
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> 100%[+++++++++++++++++++++++++========================>] |
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> 2,130,907 2.71K/s ETA 00:00 |
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> |
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> 07:20:29 (2.67 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz' saved |
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> [2130907/2130907] |
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> |
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> * checking ebuild checksums ;-) |
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> ... [ ok ] |
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> * checking auxfile checksums ;-) |
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> ... [ ok ] |
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> * checking miscfile checksums ;-) |
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> ... [ ok ] |
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> * checking mindi-1.10.tgz ;-) |
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> ... [ !! ] |
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> |
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> !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: |
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> '/usr/portage/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz' |
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> root@smoker / # |
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Seems there may be a reason it is masked. I restarted it to see if it |
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was a connection boo boo but it ain't looking good right now. May have |
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to try a older version maybe. |
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Notice that super fast data transfer speed of 2.71K/s. Swift huh? |
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Stupid dial-up. |
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What cha think about this? Well, the email didn't go so I can say that |
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it failed again so I unmasked mindi-1-11 and will see if it works |
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better. Will report later, unless someone has a better idea. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |