[nflug] Live CD help

[Joe]

Sam Stern wrote:
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>> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org]
>> On Behalf Of Joe
>> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 04:42 PM
>> To: root at samstern.net; nflug at nflug.org
>> Subject: Re: [nflug] Live CD help
>>
>> Sam Stern wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Joe,
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> On Behalf Of Joe
>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:05 PM
>>>> To: NFLUG
>>>> Subject: [nflug] Live CD help
>>>>
>>>>         
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>>>       
>> Thanks.  I'm running the dd now.  I omitted the -9 to give my
>> tired old
>> processor a break. The usb drive is way big.
>>
>> Do you know how to tell the Knoppix Live CD to skip the gui and just
>> give me 800x600 (vga) and the command prompt?  Somehow I broke
>> it during
>> boot up and got there, but I'd like to do it more easily next time.
>> Without mouse support, the gui is almost worthless.
>>
>> As for your other options, I don't know enough to make my own Live CD,
>> so I can't use optional programs.  On my other machine - my dual-boot
>> desktop, I use partimage to back up the windoze side and it
>> works great.
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> Start knoppix like this:
>
>
>  knoppix 2
>
> ^^ this just starts a text mode session. You might want to try this first.
>
>  knoppix 2 fb800x600
>
> ^^ this gives you a color screen but it can cause a display problem (like
> not seeing all the display).
>
> That should fix you up (it's my favorite command for knoppix!)
>
> If you ever need help with knoppix options, when knoppix first boots press
> the "F2" and "F3" keys at boot time. This will provide you with a nice
> summery of the various options available.
>
> I should note that there is a partimage bootable cd. Your can find it at:
>
> <http://www.sysresccd.org/>
>
>
> IF that cd works for you, it might be a better option as you can then keep
> all your images in the same format ;>
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Sam S.
>
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Totally cool.  When I get my DSL working, I'll be able to download it.
I used F2 & F3 and came up with
dsl vga=normal 2
That works great.
BTW, my first attempt bombed (after a bunch of hours) when the backup 
file exceeded 2GB on the FAT32 partition.
Since I seem to remember something about that being a design limitation 
(and because I didn't have time to figure out how to split the file on 
the fly), I redid the usb drive as one big ext3 partition and started it 
up again.  It's still running after about 7 hours - very old, very slow, 
usb 1.1 notebook.  But, if it's running this long, there's a good chance 
it will successfully complete.

Do you know how to apply split or some other filter that would allow me 
to use a FAT32 partition in the future?  I'm somewhat competent in bash, 
so if you tell me how to do it, I can figure out the rest.

Thanks.

Joe
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