On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 04:42:20PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 04:04:44PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:17:10PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > The box has no user data on it (its all on the big box). Where do I put > > the mirror and how do I restore it if the upgrade to Etch fails? > > > I was thinking to just open the box, add the 'mirror', make a backup > image with say 'dd', then remove the original hd. Then make sure it > boots, maybe use a boot disk to redo grub, and then try the upgrade, if > the upgrade failes, just pop out the new disk and replace it with the > old one. done.
I don't have a spare IDE drive. The origional drive that came with it (541 MB) has died. The two in there now were purchased used 7 years ago for $5. The 171 MB rescue on the shelf I found in the dump (in a 386 box that was dead). I have a 8 GB that periodically dies and I don't use. I'm not going to buy anything to put into this box. If I was going to spend money, I'd just get a slightly newer old box. Absolute worst case (if HDs all fail) is I pop in my Terminal Mode Linux and run a serial cable. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
