Installed the Nine

[admin]

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-

[neuromancer]

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

[neuromancer]

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

[admin]

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.

[neuromancer]

Last I checked `Drive Image` would only handle ext2 ... that is one reason I chose Norton Ghost ... `The Nine uses ext3.

David

[admin]

YOu right, here is an exert from my readme.

Drive 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.