-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Vian [mailto:jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 12:36 AM To: Rick Lim Cc: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' Subject: RE: Want to clone/make backup cds for FC3 working system On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 22:03 -0700, Rick Lim wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Jeff Vian > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:56 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Want to clone/make backup cds for FC3 working system > > On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 21:44 -0700, Rick Lim wrote: > > I want to either clone or make a "ghost" style image on cdr to copy a > > working system to a new disk. > > > > >From searching it appears that Norton ghost cannot do FC3, I tried g4l > and > > it seems to have problems with LVM, mondo/mindi does not work with FC3. > > > > Any suggestions???? > > > A current version of Mondo does work with FC3. I and others use it > regularly. > > > I tried the stable version of mindi and it tried to make several boot > floppies, when it tried to write the floppy it bombed. So I gave up. > > What version are you using? > Thanks. > The same. You need to give it the options to create a CD image of specified size and tell it where to save that image. "-i" , "-s size" & "-d dir" are required to create images. The default is to create boot floppies, but that is hardly usable for most of us. When you use the iso image it makes the CD bootable for you and automatically spans CDs as needed. man mondoarchive to see all the options and to select those appropriate. Jeff, worked like a charm, I used the curses interface, the only problem I ran into and this happened on both my laptop and desktop machine was that the device mondo discovers is the same as cdrecord cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8290 ' '1.3C' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * I could not get this device to work, I had to use /dev/cdwriter, this worked on my laptop and the desktop machine. I blew away the hard disk, this was the big test before I use it on a live machine,,,,, booted the new mondo cds and boom up and running!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks.
