Installed the Nine in clarse today.
Yesterday we started installing Linux 8 on some PCs, but for some reason mine would crap out and would give an exception error during install.
At first I went graphical and then text based, I went farther with the text based but eventually it crapped out on me with the exception.
I figured it was the discs, because i was using mine which have been carried around in my metal case for awhile, so i gave up for the day.
Today though, i took my copy of the Nine and installed it on a Dell Optiplex. i didnt get to see the changes during the intitial setup because i was showing some clarse mates how to reset his parsewd because he forgot his.
When i came back my partner, Lydia, had hit all the Next buttons.
When it finally completed and booted i noticed it asked to create another user other then root. It wouldnt let me get past that. Which is good i guess because someone using root could really jack it up.
It booted into Bluecurve, which i have read is now supposed to be KDE and GNOME in one.
I tried to boot to KDE but it is not an option like in 8. So i am wondering if would have jacked up my KDE if I would have upgraded. After the install we were dismissed. So i think i will stay with my 8.0, or try another Distro once i read up on backing up my entire 8.0 OS by making an image of it.
I am going to look into it, i read about it somewhere, OSnews i believe. I wonder if Ghost can do it?
--Sal-
Norton Ghost 2003 will back-up both ext2 and ext3 file systems. I backed up my Windows ME install (fat32) with Norton Ghost 2003 but still have to do the Linux drive ... I think I may try it this weekend though.
David
I ghosted the root partition today with Norton and it worked like a charm. One point to consider is that the restore disk created runs under DOS. I have a dual drive so I have access to DOS. There may be other issues when restoring but I am looking into them at the moment.
For now I am thrilled to get the data in root backed up to CD. 7MB of data .... six CDs .... one and a half hours to run with compression.
David
thats good to know... i need to give it a try.
i have Drive Image 02, i will see if it will do Linux parts.
ill get back to you.
Last I checked `Drive Image` would only handle ext2 ... that is one reason I chose Norton Ghost ... `The Nine uses ext3.
David
YOu right, here is an exert from my readme.
QuoteDrive Image provides SmartSector imaging support for FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Linux Ext2, and Linux Swap file systems, and sector-by-sector support for UNIX and NetWare.
but since i am using RH8 this should suit me fine.