Hi,
William Torrez Corea wrote:
> I make a disk image but this makes a backup of free space and full space of
> the disk.
> I am using dd (Unix) and using gnome-disk-utility.
> How can I make a disk image of selected data?
> I don't want to make a backup of the entire disk.
On 12/1/24 10:19, William Torrez Corea wrote:
I make a disk image but this makes a backup of free space and full space of
the disk.
I am using dd (Unix) and using gnome-disk-utility.
How can I make a disk image of selected data?
I don't want to make a backup of the entire disk.
I use
I make a disk image but this makes a backup of free space and full space of
the disk.
I am using dd (Unix) and using gnome-disk-utility.
How can I make a disk image of selected data?
I don't want to make a backup of the entire disk.
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 04:05:53 -0400
Gary Dale wrote:
> BTW: before making the image, I did run MergeIDE on the physical
> machine. It is probably required since Windows hates being moved to
> new hardware.
I've also used Merge IDE with Windows XP and 2003. It's a nice tool. Do
you happen to know
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:49:43 +0500
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> I always prefer to do the job with the tools that are native to OS.
Me too. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to repair the bootloader when
moving a windows 10 partition with gparted (to resize it later).
Reinstalling Windows was faste
On 21.09.2018 09:55, Chris wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:28:31 +0500
> Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>
>> Depending on source of your disk image I'd try to restore windows
>> bootloader (bcdboot) inside disk image and see if that helps. You can
>> do it from insta
On 2018-09-21 12:53 AM, Chris wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:13:28 -0400
Gary Dale wrote:
I'm pleased to report that with the firmware change, the new image
booted fine first try! Now I just need to do a little tuning.
Which tool did you use to create the disk image? Was it a physical
ma
On 2018-09-21 12:53 AM, Chris wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:13:28 -0400
Gary Dale wrote:
I'm pleased to report that with the firmware change, the new image
booted fine first try! Now I just need to do a little tuning.
Which tool did you use to create the disk image? Was it a physical
ma
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:28:31 +0500
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> Depending on source of your disk image I'd try to restore windows
> bootloader (bcdboot) inside disk image and see if that helps. You can
> do it from installation media without proceeding with repair
> procedure
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:13:28 -0400
Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm pleased to report that with the firmware change, the new image
> booted fine first try! Now I just need to do a little tuning.
Which tool did you use to create the disk image? Was it a physical
machine before?
Did you have
e the VM
is created.
I've installed the package but to get to the firmware option, I had to
create a new VM. When I went to remove the old one, I missed unchecking
the delete storage files box. Now I'll have to create a new disk image.
:( It's what I get for doing this with a cold
> I've installed the package but to get to the firmware option, I had to
> create a new VM. When I went to remove the old one, I missed unchecking
> the delete storage files box. Now I'll have to create a new disk image.
> :( It's what I get for doing this with a cold an
box. Now I'll have to create a new disk image.
:( It's what I get for doing this with a cold and only one cup of
coffee today.
I'll try again later since I have to shut down the source machine to
take the image and that machine is in use.
>From what you describe, I would surmise that the main problem is that
you use BIOS instead of UEFI to boot your Windows image: if it is not
already installed, install the ovmf package and invoke KVM with the
needed parameters.
There is an ovmf page in the Ubuntu wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UE
On 20.09.2018 10:08, Gary Dale wrote:
> Is this even possible? I can create a KVM guest from a Windows 7
> install DVD iso and it works fine. However I have a Windows 7 disk
> image that I want to virtualize that I can't get to go beyond "Booting
> from Hard Disk..."
&
Is this even possible? I can create a KVM guest from a Windows 7 install
DVD iso and it works fine. However I have a Windows 7 disk image that I
want to virtualize that I can't get to go beyond "Booting from Hard Disk..."
Windows 7 running in KVM also doesn't seem to like
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 10:48:29, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> On Monday 23 July 2012 2:07:42 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You
> > > don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space in
On Monday 23 July 2012 2:07:42 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote:
> > So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You
> > don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space in the
> > main partition.
>
> Nope, what I really need is
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Gary Dale wrote:
> > compressible. You can also zero the empty space on the main
> > partition, which should make it also compress quite well.
> > BitShredder can do this. If the partition has the free space zeroed,
> >
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Gary Dale wrote:
> compressible. You can also zero the empty space on the main
> partition, which should make it also compress quite well.
> BitShredder can do this. If the partition has the free space zeroed,
> it should compress down to a manageable size.
On most filesystems
On 23/07/12 02:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote:
So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You
don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space in the
main partition.
Nope, what I really need is something that would fit he
On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 09:15:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
A compressor of course helps reduce the size a *lot* (it's only 368
MiB
gziped), but this introduces an additional step that I was trying to
avoid.
... and a gzip/gunzip cycle makes the
On Jul 22, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:28:35, Rick Thomas wrote:
If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like,
zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to
mind...) and it will all be compressed out.
If the empty sp
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 09:15:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> A compressor of course helps reduce the size a *lot* (it's only 368 MiB
> gziped), but this introduces an additional step that I was trying to
> avoid.
... and a gzip/gunzip cycle makes the file non-sparse. I fixed it with
cp --sparse alway
On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:28:35, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like,
> zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to
> mind...) and it will all be compressed out.
>
> If the empty space is filled with random junk, it will depen
On Du, 22 iul 12, 22:41:52, Gary Dale wrote:
> So what you really need is a copy of the files on /boot and /. You
> don't need the swap space and you don't need the empty space in the
> main partition.
Nope, what I really need is something that would fit here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
On 22/07/12 02:05 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 22 iul 12, 17:38:58, Sthu Deus wrote:
Good time of the day, Andrei.
You worte:
Any suggestions?
Why don't You copy Your installation w/ "cp -a" and reconfiguring then
grub for the copy - to another disk (USB one?). OR I'm missing
something?
If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like,
zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to
mind...) and it will all be compressed out.
If the empty space is filled with random junk, it will depend on just
how "random" the junk is.
Does that hel
On Du, 22 iul 12, 17:38:58, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good time of the day, Andrei.
>
> You worte:
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Why don't You copy Your installation w/ "cp -a" and reconfiguring then
> grub for the copy - to another disk (USB one?). OR I'm missing
> something?
The Raspberry Pi can only b
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:10:04 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
(...)
> A web search seems to indicate CloneZilla might do the trick, but it's
> not in Debian.
>
> Any suggestions?
CloneZilla did a good job for me time ago and it can be run from a live
medium, nothing needs to be installed.
Greeti
Good time of the day, Andrei.
You worte:
> Any suggestions?
Why don't You copy Your installation w/ "cp -a" and reconfiguring then
grub for the copy - to another disk (USB one?). OR I'm missing
something?
Sthu.
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Hello list,
My Raspberry Pi arrived a few days ago and yesterday I finally managed
to run the installer for Raspbian (Debian wheezy armhf recompiled for
the Raspberry Pi).
Since the installation is not very fast due to the speed of the SD card
(and I may want to contribute images anyway) I wan
On Sun, 30 May 2010 09:45:12 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux?
>
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy-image bs=1440k count=1
> $ /sbin/mkdosfs floppy-image
>
> You need the dosfstools package for the latter command.
Thanks Sven,
On 2010-05-30 07:16 +0200, T o n g wrote:
> How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux?
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy-image bs=1440k count=1
$ /sbin/mkdosfs floppy-image
You need the dosfstools package for the latter command.
Sven
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On Saturday 29 May 2010 09:16:16 pm T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux?
>
> [OT]
> Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use
>
> sys A:
>
> to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I he
On 2010-05-30, T o n g wrote:
> How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux?
>
> [OT]
> Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use
>
> sys A:
>
> to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying
> ntldr, ntdete
On Sat May 29 2010 10:16:16 pm T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux?
I haven't made a dos disk in ages but I think mkdosfs from the dosfstools
package will do this.
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Hi,
How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux?
[OT]
Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use
sys A:
to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying
ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini into it will make it boot-able. Anybody
know if
Hi everyone,
I'm building a custom Debian image to be installed from USB.
I've basically been following this post:
http://blogs.koolwal.net/2009/02/25/installing-linux-on-usb-part-7-install-debian-linux-from-usb-drive/
and trying to modify the process a bit.
Basically I've got the debian boot
MDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
[7.562842] VFS: Cannot open root device "6802" or unknown-block(104,2)
[7.641838] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the
available partitions:
[7.741621] Kernel panic - not syncing: V
ly 17
[7.484041] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
[7.562842] VFS: Cannot open root device "6802" or unknown-block(104,2)
[7.641838] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the
available partitions:
[7.741621] Kernel panic - not
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:46:46PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,26.Jun.09, 17:52:41, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > >
> > > > try booting with kernel options init=/bin/bash
> > >
> > > This is not going to help because the kernel cannot even find the root
> > > filesystem.
> > you saying initrd
On Fri,26.Jun.09, 17:52:41, Alex Samad wrote:
> > >
> > > try booting with kernel options init=/bin/bash
> >
> > This is not going to help because the kernel cannot even find the root
> > filesystem.
> you saying initrd doesn't have a /bin/bash ?
The default initramfs has busybox (I always disabl
t; >> numbers); looks like an initrd
> >> [4.690037] Freeing initrd memory: 6392k freed
> >> [7.920170] Waiting 12sec before mounting root device...
> >> [ 19.988876] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
> >> [ 20.067
7.920170] Waiting 12sec before mounting root device...
> [ 19.988876] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
> [ 20.067490] List of all partitions:
> [ 20.142760] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
> [ 20.200934] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unab
o, adding the lage-memory
>> option but nothing.
>>
>> [4.550063] checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic
>> numbers); looks like an initrd
>> [4.690037] Freeing initrd memory: 6392k freed
>> [7.920170] Waiting 12sec before mountin
ge is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic
> numbers); looks like an initrd
> [4.690037] Freeing initrd memory: 6392k freed
> [7.920170] Waiting 12sec before mounting root device...
> [ 19.988876] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
> [ 20.0
freed
[7.920170] Waiting 12sec before mounting root device...
[ 19.988876] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
[ 20.067490] List of all partitions:
[ 20.142760] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
[ 20.200934] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:18:07PM +0200, Gerard Robin wrote:
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n't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
VFS: Cannot open device "302" or unknown-block (3, 2)
Please append a correct "root=" boot
Kernel panic
My machine seems ok, because it boot correctly on puppy.(on an USB
drive)
The mbr seems ok, I can boot windows or lin
ass/input.input0
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
VFS: Cannot open device "302" or unknown-block (3, 2)
Device (3, 2) sounds like an IDE device, /dev/hda.
Please append a correct "root=" boot
Kernel panic
My machine seems ok, because it boot c
Hello,
my box works fine since about two years with etch, and this morning I
installed cupsys, hplip ...
I rebooted the machine and I got:
-8<
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input.input0
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 12:38 pm, anoop aryal wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:30 am, listrcv wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I´m looking for a kind of rescue CD I can boot from to create an image
> > of the contents of partitions residing on a hardware RAID (3ware 7500-4)
> > --- or to creat
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:30 am, listrcv wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I´m looking for a kind of rescue CD I can boot from to create an image
> of the contents of partitions residing on a hardware RAID (3ware 7500-4)
> --- or to create an image of the whole RAID. The image(s) could be
> stored on a disk
Hi,
I´m looking for a kind of rescue CD I can boot from to create an image
of the contents of partitions residing on a hardware RAID (3ware 7500-4)
--- or to create an image of the whole RAID. The image(s) could be
stored on a disk connected to the IDE port of the board (independent of
the R
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:08:08PM -0500, Marty wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> >If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be
> >the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place
> >the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable li
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:15:56PM -0500, Marty wrote:
I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive.
Instead of a device-device copy e.g. "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" I hope to do
"cp image" followed by cp image "
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:08:08PM -0500, Marty wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> >If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be
> >the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place
> >the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable li
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be
the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place
the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable live CD distro,
and then do this:
dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/hda
That
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:15:56PM -0500, Marty wrote:
> I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive.
>
> Instead of a device-device copy e.g. "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" I hope to do
> "cp image" followed by cp image " where
I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive.
Instead of a device-device copy e.g. "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" I hope to do
"cp image" followed by cp image " where "image" is
a disk image file of the original drive.
Will the phys
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
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:08:31AM -0700, Marshal Wong wrote:
>
> I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more
> information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should
> work backwards too.
>
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img
Thanks, that worked! :)
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> I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more
> information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should
> work backwards too.
>
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img
>
or cat /dev/fd0 > filename.img will work just as nicely
Rus
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On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 10:46, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working on putting together a floppy-based distro, and I want to back up
> my floppies as disk images. What's the quickest and easiest way to do that?
>
I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more
information. Yo
Hi,
I'm working on putting together a floppy-based distro, and I want to back up
my floppies as disk images. What's the quickest and easiest way to do that?
TIA.
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1 + 1 = 10
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > ...
> > Next, it says:
> >
> > Herbert Xu wrote:
> > No it does not, all you have to do to use a filesystem other
> > than CRAMFS is to set MKIMAGE in /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf.
> >
> > Of cour
I wrote:
> ...
> Next, it says:
>
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> No it does not, all you have to do to use a filesystem other
> than CRAMFS is to set MKIMAGE in /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf.
>
> Of course, it doesn't say anything about what you can set MKIMAGE to
> [to] do that.
>
> M
Rob Weir wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:55:54PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
...
> > When I try to boot a new kernel, it says:
...
> Hmmm...have you rerun lilo?
Yes. I couldn't be booting the new kernel if I hadn't.
Anyway, I did find the Debian Reference Chapter 7 (
http://www.debian.o
> Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
>
> and says something about device 1601 / 16:01 (which disk and partition
> is that?).
>
> I built a kernel before with make-kpkg and --initrd and got it working
> just fine, but can't figure out what I'm d
I've been having trouble booting from kernels I've built with make-kpkg
with the --initrd option. My /etc/lilo.conf does has initrd=... lines.
When I try to boot a new kernel, it says:
Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
and says something about device 1601
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.24.1515 +0200]:
> how can i mount partitions from that image? any info other than
> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/x1092.htm is highly
> appreciated. i don't know cylinder and sector sizes...
the images told me that i was deal
hi folks,
assume i made a disk image like so:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=disk.img
note: that's not a partition, that's the entire disk!
how can i mount partitions from that image? any info other than
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/x1092.htm is highly
appreciated. i don'
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:57:08PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote:
> A disk image file seems to be missing from ftp.debian.org.
>
> Specifically, in the directory
>
> /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06-14/images-1.44
>
> the file base-1.bin seems to be
Hi,
A disk image file seems to be missing from ftp.debian.org.
Specifically, in the directory
/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06-14/images-1.44
the file base-1.bin seems to be missing.
This is the correct directory for the latest stable disks, right?
Why is the first base
Vincent:
Look at http://cdimage.debian.org/
Marc
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which will lead you through a series of questions and explain how to create
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c
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Hi!
I just installed Linux Mandrake 6,0 because it was easy to download: you
probably know they have their distrib ready for download in .iso format,
ready for CD burning. I also know FreeBSD have it. Do you know a way of
finding the same thing for Debian Linux?
Vincent, France.
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