there i have a computer running ubuntu 9.10 set up as a server in my classroom. I have ftp http and an internal mail server set up on it as well as other settings. I really want to make a copy of the system so i have a back up of the os. i have figured out that i can attach a hdd to the computer and copy the os via the command line with an ubuntu live cd but this only works as long as the computer that is receiving the backup is exactly the same or the same computer. I would like to transfer the image to a portable hdd then install the os onto virtual box ( a virtual machine). Is there a way to do this without buying expensive software.dose ubuntu 9.10 have a product similar to Norton ghost.
Is there a software utility out there for Ubuntu that can make a backup of the hard drive my Ubuntu 10.4 is installed on?
I have used Symantec Norton Ghost for Windows before. Is there a similar program for Ubuntu? I would also like to use the backup of the hard drive to reinstall on the same drive after a format.
Also, what would happen to the GRUB loader if I were to copy it back onto the hard drive?
Does anybody know of a program that can make make images of the entire hard drive while it's in use? Like Ghost and Acronis can do? I have a production ubuntu system that I need backups of, however, I can't power it off.
I'm having a problem which seems restricted to Fedora. I'm trying to install Fedora 10 on a dual boot system. I have Windows 7 RC installed. When I boot the live CD to run Fedora, my screen ends up displaying Fedora on the left half, and bits of the Windows shut down screen on the right. I cannot access the Fedora menus, they are pushed off to the left out of view.
I previously experienced the same problem with an earlier version of Fedora, with the HD loaded with Ubuntu and Win 7 beta. Fedora would boot but display either the last Ubuntu or last Windows screen to the right, whichever had been running last. No other version of Linux exhibits this behavior that I have found, but my experience is limited. Is there a particular procedure that I need to run to get Fedora to use the entire video display? Does Fedora need to be installed first?
Hardware is: ASUS P5E VM HDMI, using the integrated graphics, display is a 32" LCD TV HDMI input, hard drive is a Samsung 500Gb.
I have a Norton Ghost .gho file, and basicly I want to extract the raw image out of this, for example to use with with tools like dd. (So using any symantec/windows tools is not an option). Is there any open source tool which can deal with these .gho files ?
(Note: the.gho file I'm using is a sector based one, and not a file-based one, which implies that things such as Ghost explorer won't work either (see this page)
i have two hard drives,sda sdb. sda1 contains my xp,i want to work with windows on sdb1 bcoz of performance reason. ive used partimage to create an image and restore it to sdb2 while doing so im getting an error that the sdb1 partition is too small ..,this makes me understand that partimage copies all the partition bit by bit with probably the boot sector as well. but thats not the behaivor i want. i belive what i did so far is like doing ghost with partition->to partition. it means the destination partition shuld be greater or the same.. is there any ghost partition->to image like in linux? partimage only works on partitions?(i.e cant do disk image) i think my answer is somewhere around copy the files with cp, and tar gz them.
I wanted to check what version of GRUB I have installed. I went to terminal and typed grub --versionI got this message back: The program 'grub' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install grub
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 alongside windows xp pro. When I turn my pc on I have the option to boot to ubuntu or xp and at the top of the window it says that the version of grub running is "GNU GRUB Version 1.98+20100804-5Ubuntu-3" how I shold go about installing GRUB 2 or just leave it as is.
I was wondering what is available in the Linux world that would allow me to combine two or more jpegs into one grid-based image. I want to upload some images to an online auction and would like to combine them beforehand.
Haven't looked through Synaptic Package Manager yet.
I am having a problem finding a piece of software. I've searched a lot and still have not come up with an answer. My situation is as follows: I have an image file the I wish to restore to my USB flash drive but so far I've had no luck doing this. I was wondering if there was a program/command that could help me restore the disk image.
is it possible to make an image of my current installed os and settings ,and burn it to a dvd so that i can just install it on other machines without installing all my programs again?this can be done with windows xp discs. you can intregate drivers and software onto the installation cd. is it possible with ubuntu? and how do you do it?
The DVD disk is from LinuxFormatMagazine, and PCLOS is the ISO that boots. It has 10.10 on it also, but that isn't the ISO that loads by default. Do I have to transfer the 10.10 file, and burn it to a new ISO? Or can I run or install it from its' current file type on the DVD?
How to get image from webcam by linux c or c++ program? I have a netbook which comes with a webcam, however, how to identify it to be which device file in /dev? Is there any bash command to detect this?
i have recently learned how to make backups of my psp games but for some reason they won't play them in iso format only cso (not suprisingly since everyone encourages the use of this format) is there a program out there thats easy to use, can someone show me how to use it i downloaded and installed ciso but haven't figured out what makes it tick
Just purchased a webcam and it worked immediatelly with kopete. This was in the configuration dialog, a small window showed me moving around in all my gloriousness. Now realise why those horror films show this sort of footage.
Thing is: how to make the image bigger, fill the screen? Is there a program? Don't say rtfm, I don't know enough to do that.
I have recently upgraded RHEL 4.8 to RHEL 4.9 Beta.Since 4.9 ISO are unavailable and has to be fetched through update from RHEL 4.8.Can I anyhow create ISO of RHEL 4.9 Beta?Why Beta..becoz my team test pre-releases too.
I want to learn some details about linux booting, so I begin writing a small boot program myself. Yesterday, I was writing a small boot program and planned to use it boot a Bochs virtual machine. The boot program is written in assembly language and compiled with nasm.I use bxiamge.exe in Bochs and create an floppy image called boot.img and configure the Bochs virtual host to boot from this floppy image. My question is how to write the compiled boot.bin program into the floppy image(boot.img)?
I do a lot of 3D modeling in blender and I would like a program for creating textures for my models. I have used gimp, and it does the job, but it just does not quite fit for me. I do not need anything too fancy. The things that I am looking for in a program are mainly as follows:Layers Image rotation Paint Fill and brush (add on brushes would be nice) Support for png and tiff Levels, curves, hue and saturation.
In short I would like a free (open source is preferred) alternative to something like pixelmater. I can use a cloud based alternative but I really would rather use a stand alone program as I do not always have internet connection. Does such a program exist? What would you use?
As the title says, I'm looking for a program that will go through all images in a directory tree and determine if they're valid, if they've been corrupted, and (wishful thinking) if they have the wrong extension. Does anything like that exist?
I have a hard drive which already has Windows installed. On a new hard drive, I have Ubuntu Linux installed.Is there anyway to run my already installed Windows using Vmware Player on my Ubuntu setup?
I've just been playing with the whereis command. For a program installed with synaptic package manager or comes preinstalled, whereis finds the path to the program. These programs in applications menu or startup applications don't need directory information, somehow linux must have them in some kind of a directory or something. For a program extracted from a .bz file, linux has no idea where the program is and I must give directory information. So how does linux find programs that are installed normally? It can't just search through files, that would seem to be slow. Is there a table or directory where program location is stored?
I have a number of uncompressed audio files recorded off of an analog (POTS) telephone line of fax transmissions. Is there a Linux utility or library I could use to convert these files into images of the fax they contain? I'm not looking to send/receive a fax via a modem, but just to "replay" the communications tones and parse out the fax message.I'm guessing this may not be possible due to duplex issues and not knowing which end of the conversation is sending what,but thought I'd ask to see if anyone knew of something.
Recently I did a Debian Squeeze fresh install.I want to make an ISO of a CD but if I right-click the CD icon and choose copy disk only cue and toc options are available.Which package needs to be installed in order to support ISO image?
I have just finished installing (after hard work ) Centos 5.4 x86 configured with Snort & Snorby as frontend web, i would like to create from this installation kind of image that could fit to almost any hardware type.
