yordan

I use Nero 6, and I guess Nero 7 has the same functionnalities.I ask ghost to create the backup on several files. Usually I simply put each file on one CD.Usually I boot on a bootable floppy disk, and then I insert the first backupk CD.I also use the opportunity given par Nero6 to create a "bootable CD", it's one of the choices offered by nero 6. Then Nero asks me to insert the bootable floppy disk in the A: reader.I don't recommend to ask ghost to do the on-the-fly CD creation. It's safer and faster to ask Nero to create the backup files on disk. The CD's are for security, "just in case". Usually I restore the ghost backup by means of simply reading the backup images from the disk, it goes faster than from cd-rom.

Do you meen that I will get adwares in my PC if I use the new version of daemon tools ? This was not the case in the previous versions.

This hosting credit style is the reason why I am here at Xisto. If other sites had it, I could go elsewhere. Cause nobody else has it, I have to stick here... That's a fine example of the difference between open world and proprietary world. And, last but not least, the credit system is a proprietary addon to an open-source-like environment ! Really nice!

No real need for learning Linux. when you master C++, Java and PHP, Unix or Linux start being something encapsulating the program you are writing. You don't really need to know Linux, you know how Linux wants you to implement your tools.And some tools coming with Linux are more useful from others, but this is not pure Linux, this is another kind encapsulation, which gives more or less comfort to one Linux distro compared to another one.

Such is also my case. In my lab I have eight systems, exactly the same hardwre. So I do a single install, do a ghost backup, and then I put it on any one of these eight. Outside of these eight ones, sometimes I spend five minutes trying on another system, different hardware, different processors, sometimes it happens to boot correctly, sometimes not.

@WeaponX : once you have the CD's, it's very easy to duplicate them. The ghost image CD's are regular data CD, you can backup them simply using Nero, "CD Copy". The difficult thing is to have the files splitted (advanced usage of the Ghost program). Once you have the ghost backup image spillted into several 680 megs files, it's easy to put them on a data Cd, and this data CD will be very easy to duplicate. @qwijibow : When I backup a pentium III and install the backup on a Celeron, it does not boot. This seems to mean that the disk access info depend from the motherboard buses. I also tried to backup a Celeron machine and install the backup on a Pentium IV, at reboot I have blue screen. That's why I say that the safest way is restoring on the same system (same motherboard, same CPU, same bus, same disk). Nevertheless, I simply conitue trying reloading a backup and looking if it works, and if it fails I know it's normal. Regards Yordan

really nice.But... what is nc ? Is ist a standard Linux program ? I knew wc ("word count"), but nc ? "Network Computer" ? "Nice & Cheap" ?

@WeaponX : not sure I really understand what you want to do with your CD's.Here is what I do.I ask ghost to split (choosing "splitting", "autoname") the ghost image in 680 megs files.then, I have one or five files, depending from the system i am backing up.Then, I use nero to burn the first image (image.gho) on a CD. Then I ask nero to burn the second image (image.g02) on a CD. Etc...I usually put ghost on the first CD and make it bootable, so I boot on the CD, I type "ghost", I choose my image named "image", it asks me which disk to re-write to, when finished it asks for the second CD, etc...This is the worst way to do it, and the safest way.The fastest way is to leave the files on the D: disk, boot from floppy, and ask ghost to load the images on the D disk, it loads the first 680 megs image, and automatically continues with the second one, etc...Just try it next time you install a system from scratch. Do this just after finishing installing Windows (no risk, you can loose only time) : do the ghost image, see the size of the image, and redo it if the size is too big, asking for splitting the image on 680 Megs files.Then boot on a floppy and restart ghost, and restore your system from your image.Then, do something strange (removing /windows/drivers for instance), and reload from your ghost image and verify that everything is OK.And then, do a very complex install, do an image backup. And verify that you are able to restore that image.I did it on a system I could be able to sacrify, I had to install it for a collegue who needed it three days later. So I had three days for playing with install, crash, reload. And then I got experience with backing up and restoring.And that kind of experience you can get easily.RegardsYordan

I expected the Archos to be elected as the best player. Having 20 to 80 gigabytes, having a display able to view DivX, I would state these players to be the best and the most universal players. Of course i don't have one for myself (I would be afraid walking on the street with a small thing costing $600 to $ 900, see http://www.archos.com/products/photo_video_product_list.html ), but I state them being the best ones (although the most exepensive ones) today.

Here I have one year hardware warranty. I have no floppy disk reader (about $20 cost) and I need some extra memory (500 megs would cost about $50). And I know I cannot open the box, else I will loose my warranty. And my Windows says that my power supply has problems, so probably I will loose my power supply soon, and I will need my warranty to be still valid.

A lot of questions in in a single post. Let me try to answer some of them.First of all, the "size" question. On my "small" systems, a ghost backup is one or two 700 megs files. I put them in any partition of any hard disk (usually on the d: partition of the first hard disk). Of course, do not do this on the c: disk, which will be destroyed when restoring...On my big XP systems, the backup is 3.5 gig wide, so I need to put it somewhere where I have at least 4 gig free.Secondly, how to install it ? Really simple. I boot on a ms-dos disquette (a bootable CD for the system which has no floppy disk reader). Then I go to the d: disk, "cd \backup", and there I have ghost and I start it. And then it asks me from which backup to reload, I choose the last backup I have, and then I say put it on the "c:" disk.Thirdly : a ghost backup is designed for being restored on the same system (same hardware, same disk). If you try to put it on another system it could fail.RegardsYordan

HA-HA ! Now this posts starts to be really interesting. "What is the best..." was too theoretical. And there were few differences between the mentionned devices. But here we see somebody saying "I will not recommend that". And of course, when I buy a mp3 player I expect it to work with most of other ones, being able to act as an USB hard disk if I also want to share files with other PC's. Needing to use a precise software such as Music Matchbox is really unfriendly.

Do you have dual-boot on your system ? Can you boot again under Microsoft Windows and verify that you have access to Internet using the Ethernet cable ? Then, this would mean that the problem is not due to your Internet Provider nor to the router, but simply to your Linux eth0 configuration. Then, the solution is enter again in the Linux ether adapter configuration.

Be careful when moving the hardware drive from the old computer to the new ones. Sometimes you are not allowed to physically open the new computer during one year. Else, in case of hardware problem, customer service will say " sorry, you opened the box, you modified the hardware, we are not responsible any more".

One of mines is still not up now ; I still have errors when querying this database : So, I will probably have to drop and recreate my forum, loosing the previous posts, which is slightly unfriendly.

In the present case it should be simple because the modem is not a simple modem but a router providing an Ethernet connexion to the PC. So, if the PC is really connected through Ethernet, we are in the "normal" case where Linux installs Internet on an Ethernet cable.

@petitprince : the post was about hardware player, the device you put in your pocket in order to ear music while you are walking on the street ! Winamp works only on a computer, it does not work on the small things you put in your pocket !

And that's why I am here. I tried some other "free" but with ads sites, and I switched to Xisto because it's add-free. I was also on other sites providing php, but far less efficient, that's why I'm still at Xisto. Of course, if my databases do not startup after the big Xisto migration, I will reconsider my position.

If it works on a windows install on the same Ethernet cable, it's very simple : look how it works under Windows and configure the same thing for Linux. Look at your Windows Network settings. Your network is probably "DHCP client", and "Namesever from DHCP". Enter the Suze setup and that's all. And probably you use "no proxy" for your Linux browser, so enter the same thing under your Linux browser settings.

What does #PRE mean ?

@soleimanian : did you try to contact support@xisto.com before re-installing your forum ? Just see if they are able to repair, so you will not loose your previous posts.(and if they succeed in repairing your forum, I will also ask them to repair mine...)

Nope ! that's false.I create all my backups in 700 Megs splitted files, so that they fit on a CD. PowerQuest Drive images does it, and I did with with Norton Ghost too. It's hidden somewhere, probably in some "advanced mode" submenus, but it's in the software. It creates a single backup in several files, for people having only a CD Burner. Which is logic : each backup must be made two ways, on two different media. So, if you loose your second hard drive, you still have a CD backup. More over, this CD backup must NOT be in your office, just in case of major catastrophy. Ask your best friend for storing your system backups second chance CD's.

So, if it's the time for forking a process, it's normal that a full multi-task system like Linux does the job faster than Windows, which is not really multi-task nor multi-thread.Nevertheless, I would say that the real time is the time seen from the user part : time for starting the main process, malloc the needed memory, loading initial data and giving first user prompt. So, real time for loading a program and giving a result (echo "hello world" or calculating the 50th decimal value of pi for instance) would be the real way of testing several Operating systems. The old way of calculating the number of Mips or MegaFlops for each hardware for each OS was a good approach some years ago.

Last time I did, booting on floppy and loading the image from disk, it took me about five minutes (remaining time 5 minutes, then 4 minutes, then reboot). So, neglectible time compared to two hours.And I do this frequently (about once a week) because of system crashes due to spywares, unwanted anstalls and other unwanted things.

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