[RndTbl] Static and DHCP addresses

Mike Pfaiffer mike at digitalcivilization.ca
Wed Oct 13 19:46:26 CDT 2004


On October 13, 2004 07:24 pm, Bill Reid wrote this amazing epistle:
> Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> >  Now things are working the way we hoped the next step is for me to see
> > what can possibly be done. Samba is configured and running. Apache is
> > running but not tweaked. I want to do some file sharing and backup of an
> > uncooperative Windows ME box (small harddrive). Perhaps even set up a
> > game of something on the Linux side. I also have some of Macs (two don't
> > have ethernet cards but the "fastest" one does). Any suggestions? Easy to
> > understand manuals would help too. ;-)
>
> http://www.partimage.org/
>
>   Description: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves
> partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file
> can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and
> split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for
> example), ... Partitions can be saved across the network since version
> 0.6.0.
>
> Partition Image will only copy data from the used portions of the
> partition. For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the
> image file. This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty
> blocks. Partition Image also works for large, very full partitions. For
> example, a full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB.

 Thanks. I think I'll give it a try this weekend. 

 I can't believe how close I was to getting things going all this time... ;-)

    Later
    Mike


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