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devel-digest         Monday, January 17 2000         Volume 02 : Number 242

In this issue:

    upgrading disk image
    Re: upgrading disk image
    Re: upgrading disk image
    Run away! Run away!

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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:11:41 +0800
From: Nenita Manaois <[email-masked]>
Subject: upgrading disk image

hi!

i have a netwinder with kernel 2.2.9 and nettrom 2.1.16bl (just upgraded
it).  now, i would want to upgrade my disk image as i need to compile
bind8.2 on it (ralphs said that he was able to do this on dm-15).  my
machine has 1GB for / and 5GB for home.  

i am planning to slice the /home partition into 2 (2GB for /home and 3GB
for / holding dm-15).  in this case, i would have 2 choices to boot from
- - the original / on /dev/hda1 and dm-15 on /dev/hda4.  i already have
downloaded the full dm-15 on another machine but when i was about to
fdisk, i have this strange partition table:

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1      4543912  4544870  4544871      342+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda2      4543912  4544871     2151  1048717+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3      4543912  4544871     2327  1131740   83  Linux native  

doing an fdisk would mean erasing all my files in the /home directory.  i
have backed up the whole /home in another machine via ftp.  is there a way
for me to back up /home in such a way that when i copied them back to
netwinder, all will be in its original place?  i am afraid the links would
have disappeared and make things messed up.  i am running both my dns and
web service on the netwinder that is why i am so much concerned about it.
is there no other way of installing the new dm without repartitioning my
/home directory?

hope to hear your comments and suggestions.

regards,
- -nenita

p.s.
thanks to ralph for answering me queries and here's my redhat-release
file:

	release 5.1 (Manhattan)
	NetWinder GS version 1.1 [Build #1]

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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:47:00 -0500
From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: upgrading disk image

Nenita Manaois wrote:
..
> doing an fdisk would mean erasing all my files in the /home directory.  i
> have backed up the whole /home in another machine via ftp.  is there a way
> for me to back up /home in such a way that when i copied them back to
> netwinder, all will be in its original place?  i am afraid the links would
> have disappeared and make things messed up.  i am running both my dns and

Pardon the obvious, but how about "cp -auvfx /home /nfs_mount/nwhome/"
where /nfs_mount is an NFS mount of another machine with loads of space?

Or even.. "tar cvzf nfs_mount/nwhome.tar.gz /home"
where /nfs_mount is an NFS mount of another machine without loads of space.

Better than FTP I think.  Worked for me.
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Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:39:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Russell King <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: upgrading disk image

Nenita Manaois writes:
> downloaded the full dm-15 on another machine but when i was about to
> fdisk, i have this strange partition table:
> 
>    Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1      4543912  4544870  4544871      342+  83  Linux native
> /dev/hda2      4543912  4544871     2151  1048717+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda3      4543912  4544871     2327  1131740   83  Linux native  

It looks like a bad fdisk to me - don't use this version.  Try to get a
new version from the NetWinder.Org site.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:13:14 -0500
From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Run away! Run away!

My web pages for my NetWinder areas are down, and will remain so
until at least Friday, Jan 21.

I also suggest everyone out there AVOID my NetWinder RPMS like the
plague until then as well.

I'm currently doing a major reorganization and rebuild of the DM,
and things are likely to be pretty ugly in ~andrewm/redhat until
it's finished.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Andrew E. Mileski - Software Engineer
REBEL.COM  http://www.rebel.com/

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