[VoIP] 1-762 Down for Maintenance

[Donald Froula]

Back on-line.

I cloned four copies of my drive. The freeware PING
worked perfectly for cloning, except for one thing.
The swap partition on the copied drive was
successfully created, but for some reason without a
valid signature. When booting on the copied drive, a
swapon error occurred. I had to issue the "mkswap
/dev/hda5" command to rebuild the signature. On a
reboot, all worked normally.


--- Donald Froula <dfroula at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 1-762 (projectmf.homelinux.com) will be down for
> maintenance this morning while I use the system to
> clone several backups of my working hard drive.
> 
> I've come by a few more of the Wyse thin client
> boxes
> that I have been using for my Asterisk/ProjectMF
> system for the last 6 months.
> 
> These are Wyse 941Gs. They look more like a mini PC.
> They are convection-cooled, run at 1 GHz, and have
> 512
> Mbyte of RAM installed. They run Windows XPe
> (XP-embedded) from a small FLASH memory module
> plugged
> directly into a standard IDE controller slot. They
> also have a usable PCI slot that I use for a dual
> Ethernet card for the ProjectMF TDMoE trunks.
> 
> I've been pulling the module, connecting a 6 Gbyte
> IDE
> drive, and changing the BIOS to boot from an
> external
> USB CD drive and then the hard drive. There is no CD
> ROM installed. I am using a USB CDROM that connects
> to
> 2 of the available 4 USB ports (the extra is for
> power).
> 
> The standard BIOS works fine for detecting these
> devices. The BIOS is password protected
> ("Fireport").
> If the backup battery coin cell is removed, the BIOS
> reverts to factory defaults of booting from the
> FLASH
> module, and password locks again. I keep the
> password
> written inside the case to refresh my failing
> memory!
> 
> I'm cloning my operating disk with a free LINUX
> utility called PING (Partimage is not Ghost). I
> booted
> off the CD, made with the .iso image on the web
> site.
> It attached an external USB drive I used for backup
> and allowed me to backup all partitions, even the
> BIOS
> settings. I backed up to a USB drive formatted as
> FAT32. PING even broke the backup files into smaller
> chunks to accommodate the 4 Gbyte file size limit of
> FAT32.
> 
> It is also possible to make a series of DVDs with
> the
> backup images and restore a system from those. This
> might be the ticket for getting CNET members up and
> running quickly.
> 
> D.
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