Want to clone/make backup cds for FC3 working system

[Rick Lim]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Vian [mailto:jvian10 at charter.net] 
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-----
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> 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.