From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Tue May 18 22:14:07 2004 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:59:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim DeClercq To: mint_list Subject: [MiNT] backing up MiNT image Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: jimd@panix.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: I have some talent, it seems, in getting MiNT to crash. Thus, tape backup. To do that successfully, one disables mint.cnf, and reboots into single TOS and MiNT. The reason for doing this is to back up MiNT with no daemons running. If one does not do this, one gets an unusable situation after restoring an image file. This I learned the hard way. BTW, does anyone remember what were the killer apps for home computers in general, and for Windows NT? The first one was spreadsheets, and the second was, in the view of a magazine on the subject, Calamus NT. Those are precedents to follow. And, one small question. I have restarted with EasyMiNT at least twice, and still get some odd behavior running pppd. Run it once, kill the process (no additions), find the lock in /var/spool/locks has been removed, then later run it again, and it does not dial. It leaves behind pppd in wait mode, and chat in sleep mode, and a lock. Kill -9 both processes, remove the lock, and pppd works again. What does this? pppd was not always that way. -- /"\ Jim DeClercq--jimd@panix.com--Sylvania, Ohio, USA \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | I'm a .signature virus! | X against HTML mail | Copy me into your ~/.signature| / \ and postings | to help me spread! | .