backup/disk image over network options? (g4u, partimage or just plain tar?)

2003-10-20 Thread Johan Van den Neste
Hi, I'm looking into a couple of options on backing up my laptop. What I want to do is replace a 1.4G drive with a 5G drive. It runs debian/unstable, has no cdrom drive, and was installed through PCMCIA ethernet(xircom cardbus 16-bit). /root is reiserfs, but that's not really important, I might

Re: apt-get install xfce4 or kde fails

2003-10-10 Thread Johan Van den Neste
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 17:47, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:15:02PM +0200, Johan Van den Neste wrote: > > what exactly does this mean? > > The packages are buggy. > > > can I do something to fix it? > > Welcome to unstable ... >

apt-get install xfce4 or kde fails

2003-10-10 Thread Johan Van den Neste
what exactly does this mean? can I do something to fix it? Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not y

Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Johan Van den Neste
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:40, Johan Van den Neste wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:06, PF wrote: > > I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on > > laptops. > > > > Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Deb

Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Johan Van den Neste
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:06, PF wrote: > I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on > laptops. > > Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on > a HP Omnibook and I wish using journaled fs principally to avoid fschk's... I've been