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Buck wrote: > I have been toying around with Kickstart. I will do more serious > experimenting with it when I learn how to set the file server up > properly. What I have seen does help. I hope that when I create one > it will at least mostly work for newer releases as well. That will > make it most valuable. Kickstart works with the CDs as well. Just keep floppies with your kickstart file at hand. > I use Ghost on my Windows systems but I have Drive Image 4.0 as well. > It might pick up the Linux partitions if Ghost doesn't. Whether or > not Ghost and Drive Image work, I plan to learn how to use the backup > utility to assist in quick setups and to protect systems. There is > nothing more embarrassing than telling the boss his backup failed. I must admit that I'm really old-fashioned with backups (I'm with Unix for nearly 20 years I think), I just use tar. > What is DD? dd does raw disk writes/reads. You can use it for filesystem images like writing boot floppies. On a Unix or Linux system, type man dd and learn. ;-)) `man commandname` will give you the man page for that command, and `man -k keyword` helps you find the command which does what you need. > You said no trouble with the SID. I know SID is in Windows, are you > saying it isn't in Linux or that the config corrects it. There is no SID or similar stuff in Unix. The machine is identified by hostname and IP-address, nothing else. Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 8.0 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
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