[OLUG] dd

[mesc]

Yes it did ignore 4 files begining with ~ which I thought the -o or -a flags
handled.I'm not sure which one because I've made a mess of my linux again and
I'm in windows now :(Welp back to reading the mkisofs man page for me when I
get my linux back :)

    Gary Martin.


brian at bstc.net wrote:

> or....
>
> mount -o loop /path/to/image
>
> Brian Roberson
> brian at bstc.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: burchell [mailto:burchell at inetnebr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 10:41 PM
> To: olug
> Cc: burchell
> Subject: FW: Re: [OLUG] dd
>
> Sounds good, but remember, test your backup.  Make sure you can
> read/restore from this file the way you want to.  How many horror
> stories
> have we all heard about untested backups being unreadable or blank?
>
> Ideally, you could test with a spare hard drive of the same (or slightly
> larger) size.  Swap the current drive with the spare and restore your
> Windows system from your backup media.  (I know, we don't all have spare
> drives...)
>
> mesc says:
> >
> > I finally got my windows ISO made using mkisofs -o -a
> > /usr/bin/window95.img /mnt/win.After it was finished running it said
> 672
> > mb copied to /usr/bin/window95.img (the size of my windows dir)so it
> > must have done it right.Thank you all for your help.
> >
> >             Thanks again,Gary Martin.
> >
> >
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