[nflug] Disk Image/Restore

[Robert Meyer]

OK, everyone back in your corners.  There is no reason to continue this and I'd
like it to stop right now.

Drop it like a hot rock.

Bob

--- Frank Kumro <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:

> >Keep your advise to yourself and I'll think twice about sending
> >my advise to this list from now on, I won't waste my time.
> 
> Well if you choose another list let me know...you always give me good
> advice that works.
> 
> On 7/26/06, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> > Jonathan Skulski wrote:
> > > Pete, you are posting information that is incorrect. I was trying to
> > > correct it, there's no need to get so defensive.
> > >
> > > You said:
> > >
> > > "yes, that command is just blanking the mbr just like fixmbr (xp) and
> > > fdisk /mbr (dos/98)"
> > >
> > > "If we say, put xp on a drive that previously had
> > > grub on the mbr, we could ghost, dd, tar the xp copy onto the drive and
> > > then it would fail to boot UNTIL we blank the mbr."
> > >
> > > This is wrong, a mbr of all zeros WILL NOT boot windows. fixmbr and
> > > fdisk /mbr do not just blank out the mbr. Like i said before: "dd
> > > if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1 bs=512" is not the same thing.
> > >
> > >> IF you READ the entire thread, you would see what the original questions
> > >> were and how my answers related. Why don't you try reading the threads
> > >> and understanding what the questions were before offering up your
> > >> answers.
> > >
> > > Your misinformation can be as relevant as you want, but that doesn't
> > > make it correct. Maybe you should get back to uninstalling and
> > > reinstalling distributions.
> > >
> > > jsk
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> > Maybe you should get back to reading class. My directions were to copy
> > in the xp (then do a fixmbr), if 98 (then do a fdisk /mbr). I never ONCE
> > said to use dd to blank the mbr. Call blanking what you will, in our
> > case, those commands erase our grub, it may put something else there but
> > I could give a rats ass what it does put there, because I can later
> > install grub and still get back to xp/98. The focus was on how to copy
> > xp/98 into a new drive and not have a problem, I suggested the
> > "blanking  or fix as it's now called" the mbr as a failsafe option that
> > hurts nothing, just in case he was using a drive that had something else
> > on it already and I NEVER suggested any other method than the ones
> > described above. I also don't fully get into every detail that might
> > come along as I am working and giving this advise freely and don't need
> > someone like yourself that doesn't comprehend what he reads too well in
> > that he fuses what others have said into my context. There's always
> > gotta be some ass like yourself that pops up every now and starts a
> > flame. Keep your advise to yourself and I'll think twice about sending
> > my advise to this list from now on, I won't waste my time.
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> 
> -- 
> Frank
> Shenanigans!!
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