On Monday, April 18, 2005 @ 5:41 AM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
Greg Wallace wrote:
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I can boot from a CD or a floppy, just not from an external drive.
See
Phil Savoie's post regarding G4U. Looks like it might be the solution to my problem.
Ghost 4 Unix - I bookmarked that page :) Looks excellent. Very useful.
But it doesn't get you up-to-date with your O/S and apps. For that you need a spare machine as a stepping stone AND (once it is up) as a testbed for recoveries.
My 2.2c
BTW and OT - I discovered some truly fabulous software if you have multiple machines on your desk. Check out http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Mike
Mike: I have the SuSE Installation CDs for all versions between mine and 9.2 (I'll also buy the 9.3 CD soon). I have successfully upgraded to 9.1 in the past. Assuming I can do that again, I can upgrade to 9.1, use G4U to clone that disk to a drive on my USB hard-drive caddy and try to copy it back the other direction (or maybe just swap the drives from my computer and the USB drive) to see if it worked. If so, there's my backup. I would then go to 9.2 and repeat the process. If I get there and can verify the backup, I'm, so to speak, "in the money". Once I purchase 9.3, I'd just repeat the process again and be completely current. Greg Wallace