Thanks, Adam, It might be slow pulling a single file out of its context, but it cannot be slower than the way I did it! However -- was there something about clouds and silver linings? I had to patch speakup into a clean kernel source tree and begin with "make config" from scratch, and guess what? alsa RC3 just compiled without error. Chuck On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > For those situations where you've installed something that messed your > whole system up, or if you scramble your partition table and have to start > over, I have a little utility to suggest. http://dump.sourceforge.net > contains Ext2 dump and restore. This is a simple backup utility based on > the dump and restore that first appeared in BSD and later got renamed to > ufsdump and ufsrestore in Solaris. Basically, it makes backup and > restoration fairly simple. It was originally designed for tapes, but can > write to files just as easily. It's a bit tricky to install, because it > wants to set the owner of the man pages to "man" which seldom exists. > Look at the configure options carefully. What I did is to build the > package in a statically linked form. Then, I put a copy of this > statically linked restore on a floppy. That way, I could get to it from a > rescue disk and it would work no matter what libraries are on the rescue > disk. It lets you do a full restore or an interactive restore where you > can type "ls" and "cd" just like in the shell to navigate the backup and > select files. One word of warning, it is slow about restoring single > files from the middle of a backup since it's designed for tapes, but there > are options to help with this. However, a full or incremental backup and > restore are very quick. It can take a 2GB partition and can back it up in > about 10 minutes uncompressed on my system. It takes just under 2 hours > with compression, but it packs that 2GB into about 790MB with the highest > compression enabled. Give it a look. I wish Slackware included it by > default, but it doesn't. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (90% of Full) So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
