I have a hardware device that has Slackware 12 installed on it. I have my software I created installed I want to imgage this and send to a company to produce thier hardware using what I created. I would hope they won't have to install slaceware first.
View 1 RepliesI need to take an image from my laptop hard disk which has Linux SUSE installed , and I want to restore the image to another laptop (which is the same as mine). how can I do this ? in Windows environment , many programs can do this easily , but I don't know how to do this in Linux .
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am learning how to use DD for creating images across networks and locally but needed some clarification.
1 - When creating an image, I noticed that there is no verbose to show you the progress, How can I accomplish this?
2 - When I run this on a 8G usbstick it takes a long time to image. How can I speed up this process?
PHP Code:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/test/images/image.dd
3 - When an image is restored like
PHP Code:
dd if=/home/test/images/image.dd of=/dev/sdb
will that give me a working bootable usbstick? For example if I imaged a working usbstick with Ubuntu on it using DD and restored it like the example above on a different usbstick, will this give me a booting new usbstick? I hope that came across ok?
I am getting a little fed up with the fiddly-ness of Clonezilla and checked out the Members' Choice Awards for a better solution. Seems like rsync is very popular as a backup tool. But can it be used for creating an image of a partition which could later be readily used for a bare metal complete system re-install?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to make an image of a partition containing a Windows XP system.
I know that Norton Ghost can do it, and I think Clonezilla, and many other programs also.
But I was wondering whether a simple dd would work.
The basics would be something like this:
Boot the computer from a CD or USB containing a live Linux. Then:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/someExternalDisk/xp.img
where hda1 is an NTFS filesystem containing an XP system.
To restore,
dd if=/someExternalDisk/xp.img of=/dev/hda1
Obviously it needs a few other things to make it nice, like:
bs=2M,
pipe to gzip
zeroing the empty space before compressing,
But would the basic scheme work? I don't think dd cares what's in the partition, so it should work.
I'm searching for a GUI disk imager, something, that will be the GUI front end for dd. Ghost4Linux G4L is not an option, I want to be able to make security backups of my USB thumb drives, CDs, DVDs...
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have recently upgraded from lenny to squezee and I noticed some problems during upgrade with some python files. Now I have same problem with them and I need to resolve it so that I can install sane:
Code:
dpkg --configure -a
Setting up python-imaging (1.1.7-2) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/runpy.py", line 95, in run_module
filename, loader, alter_sys)
[Code]...
aptitude -f install reports same problems with python-reportlab and python-imaging.
I have to image a sparsely populated 20GB NTFS partition onto an ext4 volume. While doing dd if=/dev/sdb2 bs=10M | gzip F14 64bit falls into kernel panic screen. What other method of taking per-sector image of a HDD is possible?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have an hp laptop with 2 hdd slots, both are sata. it came with a 320gb hdd with vista ultimate 64. i added another 320gb hard drive to my laptop and installed kubuntu on the second hard drive. Since vista was my primary hard drive, parts of grub were installed on it i.e. stage 1.5. And the rest was installed on the kubuntu hard drive. Because of that neither os would boot independently of one another.
I eventually got tired of kubuntu and in wanted to uninstall it. I formatted that disk. Now vista gave me grub errors, like I knew it would.I was going to fix the vista boot sector and mbr by running bootrec.exe off of the vista disc. But since I have an hp laptop, hp doesnt provide a recovery disc with just vista, it is an install of the factory image of the os plus software and therefore doesnt have the utilities I need to fix my problem.I ended up navigating to some sort of command line in the windows recovery environment and tried running it there, but no luck.
I tried navigating in the hp recovery environment, and accidently had vista start to reinstall itself on the drive, and actually I did that 3-4 times, each of which I stopped the recovery early on, within 30 seconds, but it had managed to mess up my partition table. I was wondering if there is some utilities in linux/ windows that will help me restore the partitions back the way they should be? I have done a data recovery with get data back for ntfs, and was pretty successful getting some stuff back, figures since the mft was screwed up.
So first of all I want to make an exact clone of the hard drive. Something like dd but just make an image file for now. Since there are no partitions on the drive I dont think I can use partimage, or drive image xml and I wonder if clonezilla will work. And I dont know how to test it without have to reload the image and wiping the drive in the process. I have imaged the drive with get data back but it does me no good cause I cannot restore that image back to the drive, or at least dont think I can.
Second I would like to see if I can recover the partition table , or mft that was over written. Here is a list of programs I can use for imaging or recovering. [URL]Third, since I have 2 320gb hard drives, one that is corrupted, and one that I took kubuntu off of and loaded vista with the recovery disks. Can I take the mbr, and partition table, or boot sector off of the working vista and move it to the broken 320 and fix it that way?
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I'm running fedora 10 on a virtual machine. I'm trying to create a kernel so that I can use the imaging software FOG on multiple computer makes and models. I'm pretty new to linux so I'm sure I'm missing something I just need someone to point me in the right direction. I have installed the "Development Tools" and qt3-devel. When I run make xconfig or make menuconfig it errors out. The following is what I get...
make xconfig
[root@localhost linux-2.6.26.2]# make xconfig
scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/x86/kconfig
init/kconfig:514: can't open file "usr/Kconfig"
make[1]: *** [xconfig] Error 1
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
[Code]...
Has anyone found a good cloning program like pq magic etc. I looked at clonezilla but could not find a dload for fedora/redhat (would installing it via tarball work?)
View 6 Replies View RelatedI can see from /var/log/messages error messages and weird crashes that the disk in my laptop is on the way out. I plan to replace it but to do this I'd rather not have to install everything again.My laptop has these partitions:Windows Recovery (10GB)Windows 7 (NTFS 96.6GB)Linux /boot (ext4 100MB)Linux LVM (encrypted, 143GB)I need software that will allow me to create an image (or images) of all these partitions, save the image(s) to a USB hard drive and restore from those images once I've put the new, blank, hard drive into the laptop. Does anyone know of software (either open source or commercial pay-ware) or a technique to do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAm doing a simple partition imaging program. Am using libparted for partition things. Before that I want to list the available hard disks (/dev names) attached to the PC Programmatically.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to setup a server at home, it has some practical implications, but largely it is just to take a stab at it. But I need the help of someone with more experience than I in defining exactly what I'm looking to do.
Here's what I have: old PC running Gutsy server connected to router. Several laptops at home connected via wifi to router. All laptops running either Windows or Ubuntu. Here's what I'm looking for: The server centralizes file storage for all clients. I would likely incorporate a RAID and some synchronised imaging of the files. I also want the server to create disk images of the clients hdd, regardless of client OS.There would also be some shares that would be publicly accessible (myself and friends accross the country would be able to access the same drive).
So I was thinking something like what corporate environment would be nice, you log into a profile that exists on the server. Like a dumb client...all data would be stored on the server. But I'm thinking that's more like a network boot and wouldn't work via wifi (or would it?). Also that wouldn't lend itself well to laptops used on the road in areas without net access. now I'm thinking each client would have its own locally installed OS, and they would just access networked shares. I could store sensitive files on the shares, but that wouldn't provide complete backup solution for each client.
Without rambling on anymore, anyone care to throw out some ideas? I'm really just looking to see if I can do what I want. The focus is on centrallizing files, securley backing up data and client OS's and ability to restore said images quickly.
The problem is every forum I read pretty much ends up with someone suggesting DD, everyone agreeing and the threads dead-end. This is not a good solution for real world large scale usage which is what I'm trying to do. At least it doesn't appear to be unless there is some switch I have misinterpreted when invoking the command. The problem I have with it is it's super bloated and god awful slow. It tries to write out the entire partition or set of partitions (based on the choice I have made) reguardless of if any of the space had been empty, and lets say the partition I copied from was 80 GB and I copy it to a 160 GB disk/partition... I am left with an 80 GB partition and 80 GB unused space and a need to use another tool such as Gparted to resize the newly imaged disk accordingly.
Right now what I use is Norton Ghost and it can do the job I need in only a couple minutes instead of a couple hours and it sizes the partition to max size all at once. I do not want to use this program tho... The fact is in order to make ghost run at a usable speed I have to use it's Windows and not its DOS version which leaves me using something like BartPE and... that's worse than using Windows ME. Surely someone out there has noticed this is a problem and developed a better program that can at least run on par with Ghost.
why I was hoping for a Linux solution it's because I would like to use a "one stop shop" disk, so to speak, where I can boot into a small linux distro such as Puppy and have a full suite at my disposal rather than booting with one disk, wiping, rebooting with another disk, ghosting then testing everything. I suppose if anyone knows of a distro that can already do all that including a good ghost alternative already packaged I would love that.
I've got a problem installing application into my slack, when I was trying to configure the packages (./configure) in order to install them, the system shows me a message in which there was a problem with using gcc libraries.
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I'm so used to Windows and programming on Windows in C# .NET and tweaking/hacking there that I have no idea where to really start with Linux so if you have any special tips or places to go to read up on stuff so I can maybe figure out more about Linux and this I'd like that a lot.
I am installing slackware 13.1 from USB. This will NOT be a dual-boot system.The install appears to work correctly installing to /dev/sda2 (/dev/sda1 is my swap)However I get an error when installing to the LILO to the MBR, root, or even to a floppy drive (I tried all 3 multiple times with no luck)My issues comes when LILO is installing.
After a couple of video warnings I get the following:
Warning: Device 0x0010 inconsistent partition table
CHS address in PT: 15:12:12 --> LBA(230465)
[code]...
I have just installed " partimage" partition imaging - I want to perform a FULL system back up - problem is I cannot find where this programme is sitting to be able to perform my back up .
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently had a laptop die on me. I, of course, then to recover the hard drive. I wanted to install slackware to a partition on my drive, so I can have a linux distro with me( also I have a FAT32 partition for shared space) I have a Slackware 13.1 disk one (which i need, since I don't need a graphical environment or anything), and proceedd to follow setup program. I have a 5GB '/' partition, a 10GB '/home' partition, and a 2GB swap partition. My ROOT partition is bootable. The setup program seemed to complete succesfully, but it won't boot. When I choose to boot from my hard drive (in the bios), it reverts to the slackware disk, if present, or the standard windows drive.
I installed LILO to the superblock of my external, because according to the setup the MBR option installs to "The MBR of your first hard drive", and I wasn't sure if that was right, since my first hard drive is my windows one. Since i'm not even seeing LILO, I think it has to do with installing to the superblock. I want to be able to boot a basic linux distro if needed from whatever computer I want. I'm not sure if slackware was the right choice, but it was one that I had worked with installing before, and knewthat you didn't necasarraly have to instal all the graphics stuff. I just want a shell. Sorry if my question sounds retarted, I'm new to the whole "Multiple drives, and operating systems" thing
I have just started with linux and have installed slackware 13 on my laptop - a Compaq Armarda. I need to install a wireless card and have a d-link dwa 125 usb adaptor. How do I install it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am very new to Slackware and Linux.
I was able to install and run Slackware 13.0. But I have no clue to install anything to Slackware.
Can some one kindly explain step by step how can I install pidgin-2.5.9-x86_64-1.txz ?. It will be a great help.
How can I learn Slackware?
i wanted to know whether the gcc,g++ libraries are pre-installed i slackware 12.1 or not. if not then from where can i download them .how do i install them? how do i install the java jdk package also?
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