For some reasons, you may need to clone/backup NTFS based systems. Lets say your NTFS system is located at /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 is a spare partition where you can store your image.
At first you need to boot a live system to take an image:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.mbr
ntfsclone -s -o – /dev/sda1 | bzip2 -9 -c > \
/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.img.bz2
To restore the image you just need:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
dd count=1 bs=446 if=/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.mbr of=/dev/sda
cat /mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.img.bz2 | bunzip2 -c | \
ntfsclone -r -O /dev/sda1 -
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What a happy day … on the wedding anniversary of our civil marriage we got a great gift. Our favorite distribution released a new major version.
Like every time … it’s the best distribution our project released so far. Many thanks to all those people who did make that happen. If you not married today, maybe you have the possibility to dedicate Lenny to your valentine. :)
Today I was reconfiguring a Cisco 7513 with a RSP 16 and a FastEthernet module inside.
So I did a “erase nvram” and a “reload”. After booting I was surprised to see the following in my Terminal:
Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]:
Loading pxelinux.0 from 10.42.10.50 (via FastEthernet4/0/0): !!!
[OK - 13156 bytes]
So the box took an IP via DHCP and tried to netboot. (Un)fortunately it only breaks my terminal, so no worries! ;)
Yesterday my ordered HP Thin Client T5725 arrived. The clue is, Debian sarge is and no moving parts (no noise) are inside. It’s a really nice thin client and it can be used as Surfstation out of the box. There is also a “HP Connection Administrator” which can manage ‘Citrix‘, ‘rdesktop‘ and ‘XDMCP‘ connections.
After taking a short overview, I decided to update to etch. This was a kind tricky, cause packages did need to update in correct order to save the HP packages. Due the switch from Xfree to xorg with etch, the graphical frontend for configuring the X server didn’t work anymore, but in my environment this is no issue.
So now I’m really happy with a HP Thin Client and bleeding edge software on it, for xdmcp use. ;)
