Re: Xy4-Dosemu startup and quit tweaks

[Raphael Tennenbaum rtennenbaum@xxxxxxxx]

Paul Lagasse wrote:

> I don't think I've had partimage complain that an unmounted partition
> was mounted; as best I can recall, that aspect has run smoothly. (I
> often run it off an unpowered usb hard drive that has a persistent
> Ubuntu install, which should be a similar situation to your thumbdrive.)
> I usually do stupid stuff like forgetting to run sudo, or not entering
> the path in addition to the filename of the image file I'm creating.
> BTW, if you've got a persistent Jaunty thumbdrive now, you can turn it
> into even more of a rescue drive (should you ever need that, and if you
> haven't already) by going to Ubuntu Rescue Remix and running the apt-get
> install command at the bottom of page
> http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/Software. I believe that convertfs
> doesn't install, but all the other tools do; you might need to remove
> that from the command to get it to run smoothly.


just a side note -- after initial success with Partimage, I've discarded
it in favor of Clonezilla. I managed to use Partimage to back up two
partitions last week, but yesterday it crapped out, twice -- both times
when it was 90% done backing up to the external hard drive. I had booted
from am Ubuntu Rescue CD rather than the thumb drive, where it worked
fine, which is perhaps the reason (?). in any case, Clonezilla is
pretty straightforward & has the added benefit of backing up the
partition table information. as a matter of fact, I'm so taken with it
that right now it's backing up the partitions on the Windows box.


-rafe