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ooh sweet! ill have to try that then.. ;)

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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Hugo Rabson wrote:

> Fdisk does things differently for SCSI vs IDE. However, Mondo just tells fdisk to create partitions of X Megabytes: it doesn't care about the low-level stuff. So, in theory, you can backup on SCSI and restore to IDE.
> 
> Mondo will try to modify fstab and lilo.conf to suit the new layout, if you tell it the layout has changed. It normally does a fairly good job. If it fails, it picks up on the fact & then lets you edit the files with vi.
> 
> Do this:-
> 
> - boot into Expert Mode
> - type 'vi /tmp/mountlist.txt'
> - change all the /dev/sda* stuff to /dev/hda* (or whatever)
> - save & exit vi
> - run 'mondo-restore'
> - choose Interactive Mode
> - check mountlist's sanity
> 
> I know you somehow ended up with a 20MB partition instead of a 20GB partition. That's just weird. I'm going to be looking into that. You mentioned you found a way to circumvent the problem by creating some smaller partitions.
> 
> - partition
> - format
> - restore
> - say yes when asked if you have modified the mountlist
> 
> At this point, Mondo will try to hack lilo.conf and fstab to match the new partition layout. If it fails, it will use vi to let you edit them manually. It doesn't always hack them successfully but it is very good at spotting its own failure to do so.
> 
> Anyway, that should do the trick. Let me know how it goes. :)
> 
> -Hugo
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jason W <ja...@mo...> wrote:
> >i dont think youre gonna have much success backing up on scsi and
> >restoring on ide or vice versa.. Maybe someone else can explain it
> >better. I believe its because of the actual format that scsi uses to write
> >to a disk vs ide. Also, you would have to change your 
> >/etc/lilo.conf to reflect booting off of the other kind of disk, and also
> >your /etc/fstab would need to be changed which I doubt mondo is going to
> >do.
> >
> >Jason
> >
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> >On 30 Nov 2001, Krzysztof Dubowik wrote:
> >
> >> Hi list,
> >> 
> >> I'd like to ask if anyone spotted a similar problem. I had a linux host with SCSI harddrive, but it failed. I wanted to restore Mondo backup in "interactive" mode to another machine that has IDE drives. I have modified fstab (the original one attached) and I requested the following:
> >>  
> >>  /dev/hdc1   /boot      15MB
> >>  /dev/hdc5   /          20000MB
> >>  /dev/hdc6   swap       500MB
> >>  
> >>  After that the restore failed. You can see how the restore program partitioned my hard id the attached "afterrestore.log" file. As you can see it created 23megs / partition insted od 20Gig partition and of course it became full during the restore.
> >>  
> >> I was able to restore my system by requesting smaller partitions for /usr /var and /home. After that the restore went smoothly.
> >>  
> >> Has anyone encountered similar problem?
> >>  
> >>  I use:
> >>  RedHat 6.2
> >>  kernel 2.4.7
> >>  mondo 1.19
> >>  mindi 0.45
> >>  
> >>  Regards,
> >>  Krzysztof
> >> 
> >
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Fdisk does things differently for SCSI vs IDE. However, Mondo just tells fdisk to create partitions of X Megabytes: it doesn't care about the low-level stuff. So, in theory, you can backup on SCSI and restore to IDE.

Mondo will try to modify fstab and lilo.conf to suit the new layout, if you tell it the layout has changed. It normally does a fairly good job. If it fails, it picks up on the fact & then lets you edit the files with vi.

Do this:-

- boot into Expert Mode
- type 'vi /tmp/mountlist.txt'
- change all the /dev/sda* stuff to /dev/hda* (or whatever)
- save & exit vi
- run 'mondo-restore'
- choose Interactive Mode
- check mountlist's sanity

I know you somehow ended up with a 20MB partition instead of a 20GB partition. That's just weird. I'm going to be looking into that. You mentioned you found a way to circumvent the problem by creating some smaller partitions.

- partition
- format
- restore
- say yes when asked if you have modified the mountlist

At this point, Mondo will try to hack lilo.conf and fstab to match the new partition layout. If it fails, it will use vi to let you edit them manually. It doesn't always hack them successfully but it is very good at spotting its own failure to do so.

Anyway, that should do the trick. Let me know how it goes. :)

-Hugo



--- Jason W <ja...@mo...> wrote:
>i dont think youre gonna have much success backing up on scsi and
>restoring on ide or vice versa.. Maybe someone else can explain it
>better. I believe its because of the actual format that scsi uses to write
>to a disk vs ide. Also, you would have to change your 
>/etc/lilo.conf to reflect booting off of the other kind of disk, and also
>your /etc/fstab would need to be changed which I doubt mondo is going to
>do.
>
>Jason
>
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>		-- Time Bandits
>
>On 30 Nov 2001, Krzysztof Dubowik wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> I'd like to ask if anyone spotted a similar problem. I had a linux host with SCSI harddrive, but it failed. I wanted to restore Mondo backup in "interactive" mode to another machine that has IDE drives. I have modified fstab (the original one attached) and I requested the following:
>>  
>>  /dev/hdc1   /boot      15MB
>>  /dev/hdc5   /          20000MB
>>  /dev/hdc6   swap       500MB
>>  
>>  After that the restore failed. You can see how the restore program partitioned my hard id the attached "afterrestore.log" file. As you can see it created 23megs / partition insted od 20Gig partition and of course it became full during the restore.
>>  
>> I was able to restore my system by requesting smaller partitions for /usr /var and /home. After that the restore went smoothly.
>>  
>> Has anyone encountered similar problem?
>>  
>>  I use:
>>  RedHat 6.2
>>  kernel 2.4.7
>>  mondo 1.19
>>  mindi 0.45
>>  
>>  Regards,
>>  Krzysztof
>> 
>
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i dont think youre gonna have much success backing up on scsi and
restoring on ide or vice versa.. Maybe someone else can explain it
better. I believe its because of the actual format that scsi uses to write
to a disk vs ide. Also, you would have to change your 
/etc/lilo.conf to reflect booting off of the other kind of disk, and also
your /etc/fstab would need to be changed which I doubt mondo is going to
do.

Jason


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On 30 Nov 2001, Krzysztof Dubowik wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I'd like to ask if anyone spotted a similar problem. I had a linux host with SCSI harddrive, but it failed. I wanted to restore Mondo backup in "interactive" mode to another machine that has IDE drives. I have modified fstab (the original one attached) and I requested the following:
>  
>  /dev/hdc1   /boot      15MB
>  /dev/hdc5   /          20000MB
>  /dev/hdc6   swap       500MB
>  
>  After that the restore failed. You can see how the restore program partitioned my hard id the attached "afterrestore.log" file. As you can see it created 23megs / partition insted od 20Gig partition and of course it became full during the restore.
>  
> I was able to restore my system by requesting smaller partitions for /usr /var and /home. After that the restore went smoothly.
>  
> Has anyone encountered similar problem?
>  
>  I use:
>  RedHat 6.2
>  kernel 2.4.7
>  mondo 1.19
>  mindi 0.45
>  
>  Regards,
>  Krzysztof
> 

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Just wanted to spread a thank you to Hugo and note the jump in reliability of 
mondo-archive relating to the Debain kernel.

I have not been able to boot past the ramdisk section of the boot-up using 
the Debian kernels downloaded from the testing area, so the "--my-kernel 
SUCKS" command is needed in the mondo-archive command line.  Just confirmed 
Hugo's fix for this issue.

'Stuff's getting better everyday"  --Kevin Costner in The Postman

Thanks HUGO!

--- Jim Lynch <jw...@sg...> wrote:
>I followed all the instructions in the Linux Journal.  Had a problem
>with the tar statements in the mindi script, but got those fixed.  No
>errors were reported during the ./mindi step and the isofs image seems
>to have been created OK.  I did the cdrecord step to a cdr disk and
>tried to reboot.  Got a quick flash at boot time "CDROM: boot record not
>found" and it went on to boot from HD.

>Debian 2.2 system.  600 Mhz Celeron. Yamaha 2216 CDwriter.

OK, try this.

1. Run mindi again.
2. Make boot floppies instead of a CD.
3. Boot from the floppies.
4. Re-run Mindi & make a CD with the failsafe kernel instead of Debian's kernel.

If you can boot from Debian's kernel & stuff on floppies then it might be something to do with your CD-RW drive or maybe your version of cdrecord.

If you can boot from the CD containing the failsafe kernel then the problem is with Debian's kernel.

-Hugo


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Hi,
	I'm trying to get mondo up and working, but mindi fails to create it's boot disk every time I try.  I get the 'Cannot find /tmp/dev.0' error, but rebooting the machine does not help.  I've also tried using several different kernels: 2.4.4, 2.4.7, 2.4.10, and 2.4.16 all on SuSE 7.2.

Thanks for your help.

PS:  I've uploaded the logs to http://www.uidaho.edu/~nickw/files/mindi if anyone wants to have a look.
-- 
Nick Webb
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Let me preface this with the fact I've never created a cd from Linux
before, so ...

I followed all the instructions in the Linux Journal.  Had a problem
with the tar statements in the mindi script, but got those fixed.  No
errors were reported during the ./mindi step and the isofs image seems
to have been created OK.  I did the cdrecord step to a cdr disk and
tried to reboot.  Got a quick flash at boot time "CDROM: boot record not
found" and it went on to boot from HD.

I mounted the cd after Linux came up and everything looks OK.  
chinaberry:/cdrom# ls -lR
.:
total 4
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         2048 Nov 29 10:19 boot.cat
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Nov 29 10:19 images

./images:
total 9209
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      1431714 Nov 29 10:19 1.tar.gz
-r--r--r--    1 root     root       310047 Nov 29 10:19 2.tar.gz
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      1763328 Nov 29 10:19
mindi-boot.1722.img
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      2949120 Nov 29 10:19
mindi-boot.2880.img
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      1474560 Nov 29 10:19 mindi-data-1.img
-r--r--r--    1 root     root      1474560 Nov 29 10:19 mindi-data-2.img

Any idea how to check to see if the boot record really did get written?

Any other ideas what might have gone wrong?  Yes, I'm able to boot from
CDROM on this system.  That's how I installed Debian.

Debian 2.2 system.  600 Mhz Celeron. Yamaha 2216 CDwriter.

Thanks,
Jim.

You've got to install the libnewt0 package.  Check the contents of your
distribution to find out what the package name is for your
distribution.  You've got to include the development pieces too, if they
are separate.  If you're using debian 2.2, 'apt-get install libnewt-dev'
will do the trick.  I don't know anything about any of the other
distributions.

Jim.

1. Some users are reporting that Mondo v1.19 and v1.20 says, "Backing up files >16MB" (or ">24MB" for v1.20) and then does nothing at all.

I know roughly which line of code this is occurring at but I cannot see a reason. My system doesn't lock up like that, whether there are or are not files >16MB to be backed up.

If this happens to you then please:-
- send me your /var/log/mondo-archive.log
- send me your /home/mondo.scratch/archives/biggielist.txt (use 'find / | grep biggielist' to find biggielist.txt)

2. Does anyone out there own a Sony VAIO, or a laptop with a CD tray that you must push in manually (i.e. it won't auto-retract when you try to mount the CD)? If so, please let me know how you mount the 2nd CD. Don't laugh. Do you push it in & then press ENTER? Do you press ENTER and wonder why the CD drive doesn't mount? If so, what does the screen do? What does Mondo do? I'm not trying to be a smartass. I genuinely want to know.

Has anyone else encountered these problems? In the words of Queen Latifah, "Let's talk about it!"

"U.N.I.T.Y..... Cream, get the money..." Oh wait, that's not it...

Man, the jet-lag was getting to me. I was _this_ close to adding
a '--wu-tang' switch to mondo-restore. I'm not sure what it 
would have done but it would have been fun explaining it at 
the code review... ;)

-Hugo


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Mondo v1.20 and Mindi v0.46 are out. They contain very minor bugfixes... except for that annoying '/lib/modules/2.4.13-xfs not found' bug, which I have FINALLY nailed. Other than that, the changes are mostly cosmetic. See the CHANGES file for more info.

Mondo v1.30 is out. Please don't use it. Really. :) It is completely untested. Mondo v1.20 has been tested quite a bit. Mondo v1.30 hasn't been tested at all. If it eats your computer and spits out the bones, don't blame me. Well, alright, I admit I've been using v1.30 & it works just fine. :) It is really v1.20 with the functions in alphabetical order and a couple of minor changes, e.g. the exclusion of ext3 partitions' journal files. However, it _is_ marked as unstable, so say, "Dun dun duhhh," under your breath before you run it.

Let's talk about stability...

I have also updated the FAQ and the Download website, to make it clear to users that I am supporting some Linux distros and not others. As one user put it, "There is a ***HUGE*** Linux configuration space that you can't test, but the users are expecting Mondo to work with. You never claim Mondo works with Elbowian Linux Version 1.2beta, but the users EXPECT it to. When Mondo fails to handle their munged-up, bizarre, self-rolled disto they perceive MONDO as 'buggy.'"

The Download page now says, "Is your distro supported? See the list below. Some distros are. Some aren't. If yours isn't explicitly supported then Mondo might work, it might not; your guess is as good as mine."

Comments? Suggestions? You know where to reach me. If you have an idea, mail it to the list. If you have a logfile, mail it to me.

If you have a bug to report, please do send me _something_ in addition to, "Help! Mondo sux0rs, dude!" C'mon, don't make me beg. ;)

-Hugo


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So what exactly from #3 do we need? Ill try to get outside help ;)

Jason

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Hugo Rabson wrote:

> --- "Peter Smith - Crossramp" <ps...@cr...> wrote:
> >I am trying to get [Mondoo] up and running on 
> >FreeBSD... it's a little difficult so far - has anyone had anyluck?
> 
> 3 or 4 people this month have asked me about porting Mondo to FreeBSD.
> 
> There are two problems:-
> 
> 1. I don't know anything about FreeBSD, except insofar as I know a little bit about UNIX.
> 
> 2. I don't have a Busybox-like product to provide a good, compact set of tools. (PicoBSD?)
> 
> 3. I don't have a FreeBSD programmer to help me.
> 
> I can overcome #1 myself. If PicoBSD is what I think it is then #2 
is not a problem. #3 is the problem. Frankly, I have had a lot of "why don't you"s but not a single "why don't I help you". ;)
> 
> -Hugo
> 
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Hi Celestino,

--- Celestino Rey <cre...@ya...> wrote:
>I've created a set of CD with mondo and when trying to compare it 
>opens up the status screen and stays ther forever.

OK, what does your logfile, /var/log/mondo-archive.log, say?

Mondo generates a detailed logfile so that the user (or the author *g*) can tell what is going on. If you would be so kind as to show it to me, perhaps I could tell what the problem was.

You said something about Mondo not mounting all your partitions. Please boot into Expert Mode and look at /tmp/mountlist.txt, the list of all mount points. It is fairly self-explanatory. Type 'mount-me' and then 'mount'. See which partitions were mounted. Type 'unmount-me' to unmount them.

Please send me a copy of /tmp/mountlist.txt, also.

Which Linux distribution are you using? Which kernel? What sort of hardware? Are you using IDE or SCSI hard disks? Any RAID? Any LVM?

-Hugo


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--- "Peter Smith - Crossramp" <ps...@cr...> wrote:
>I am trying to get [Mondoo] up and running on 
>FreeBSD... it's a little difficult so far - has anyone had anyluck?

3 or 4 people this month have asked me about porting Mondo to FreeBSD.

There are two problems:-

1. I don't know anything about FreeBSD, except insofar as I know a little bit about UNIX.

2. I don't have a Busybox-like product to provide a good, compact set of tools. (PicoBSD?)

3. I don't have a FreeBSD programmer to help me.

I can overcome #1 myself. If PicoBSD is what I think it is then #2 is not a problem. #3 is the problem. Frankly, I have had a lot of "why don't you"s but not a single "why don't I help you". ;)

-Hugo


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Hi - I like Mondo - it works well on RH6.2 and Mandrake 8.0 for me.... =
but ... I am trying to get it up and running on FreeBSD... it's a little =
difficult so far - has anyone had anyluck?

Peter

I've created a set of CD with mondo and when trying to compare it opens up the
status screen and stays ther forever.

I also have seen that it doesn'n mount my primary partition but only the w2k
one. I'm running RH 7.2

Thanks

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Hi Thomas,

This is so strange! :-) I have had two e-mails about the Sony Vaio, from two different people, in < 48 hours. Am I imagining things? It could be the jet-lag. (I've just emigrated. *g*)

OK, the "illegal request" message is coming from the Linux kernel. Something fishy is going on inside your CD writer and Mondo cannot cope with it.


--- "Thomas Schnesk" <Tho...@fa...> wrote:
[using Mondo]
>If I press the enter key when
>prompted for a new CD before the 2nd CD completely spins up, the program bombs.

Hmm. I have never encountered that error. At the risk of sounding like a smart-ass, may I suggest you let the 2nd CD spin up completely? This would be a temporary work-around, of course...

>If I wait until the CD has spun up and stops, I get an error describing "illegal
>request" but Mondo continues until completion.  

Yep. That comes from your CD writer.

>However, I get errors messages regarding the
>floppy format. 

I've never had this error but I suspect bug-me is mounting /mnt/floppy, not /dev/fd0 explicitly. Would you like to mount the floppy disk yourself and copy the tarball manually? Check out 'bug-me' to see where it saves the tarball.

>I then tried the RPM version on my desktop which is running on an older Asus
>board with an AMD 500 MHz chip and a Plextor CD drive.  The program works fine
>with the exception that it utilizes more CD's than I thought would be necessary.
> I had to stop the program when it requested the 4 CD - my wife needed to use
>the PC and I had to leave for work.

Do what I did - get divorced! (Just kidding. *g* Don't divorce her unless she hits you when she gets mad.) Actually, do what I did - buy a tape streamer. ;-)

Tongue firmly in cheek............. Would anyone like to loan me a Sony Vaio? My girlfriend has one but she's in Texas and I'm in England...

-Hugo


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Hi Andy,

--- Andy Longton <mon...@me...> wrote:
>What tool can I use to extract the LZO files Mondo creates?

# afio -v -P lzop -Z -i /mnt/cdrom/archives/N.afio.lzo

>Situation: In the middle of a painfully long full backup to a 2x burner,
>errors were detected in a few of the archives while extracting them to
>another machine.  

Do you mean you backed up one CD at a time and restored one CD at a time to another PC while still generating additional backup CD's?

I recommend you complete the backup process & then run Compare Mode. Boot from the first CD and type 'compare' <ENTER>.

>I'm about to dump this backup, stay up all night flipping disks (again
>:( ), but switch to bzip at a low compression rate (familiar, reliable).

I don't think LZOP is the problem. I have backed up and restored my system (with LZOP compression) to/from a tape. It sounds as if the problem is with your CD writer, or maybe the CD-R's themselves. What does your log file say? Does it report any errors? How about Compare Mode?

-Hugo


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Hi Nico,

Good question.

Short answer: I haven't done it yet but I plan to.

Bruno Cornec & I have been talking about it, actually. It is pretty simple. Mindi must be modified to:-
- include the NFS daemon & various other NFS-related tools and files
- at boot-time, start the NFS daemon
- mount the NFS partition
- mount the CD-ROM within it, as a loop filesystem

Yes, it can be done. Until 4 hours ago, I did not have access to more than one PC. I still don't have a network. (I have just emigrated, I am broke and I have jet-lag *g*.) It is my intention to have an experimental implementation of NFS support in two to three weeks.

-Hugo



--- Nico De Ranter <ni...@so...> wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>I would like to use Mondo/Mindi to install Linux on a number
>of Sony Vaio R600's. Unfortunately the Vaio turns out to have
>an i.Link DVD drive and the i.Link chipset is apparently not
>supported by Linux :-(. I do not have a tapestreamer or
>external CD-ROM player available but I do have a networkserver.
>Any chances of doing a restore over the network?  If not,
>any idea whether this would be a lot of work to implement?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Nico
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
> "It has been said that there are only two businesses that
>  refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and
>               the computer industry." 
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Nico De Ranter
>Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B)
>Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
>1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
>Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
>e-mail: nic...@so...


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Howdy,

I would like to use Mondo/Mindi to install Linux on a number
of Sony Vaio R600's. Unfortunately the Vaio turns out to have
an i.Link DVD drive and the i.Link chipset is apparently not
supported by Linux :-(. I do not have a tapestreamer or
external CD-ROM player available but I do have a networkserver.
Any chances of doing a restore over the network?  If not,
any idea whether this would be a lot of work to implement?

Thanks in advance,

Nico

---------------------------------------------------------
 "It has been said that there are only two businesses that
  refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and
               the computer industry." 
---------------------------------------------------------
Nico De Ranter
Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B)
Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
e-mail: nic...@so...

Ah got it. Would have been nice if there was a list of prerequisites
or something like that :-)

Nico

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:37:56AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm trying to install Mondo 1.19. When I run install.sh I get
> 
> In file included from mondo-tools.c:9:
> my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from mondo-newt.c:10:
> my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from mondo-restore.c:176:
> my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
> chmod: getting attributes of `mondo-restore': No such file or directory
> In file included from mondo-tools.c:9:
> my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from mondo-newt.c:10:
> my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from mondo-tarme.c:59:
> my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
> 
> What is newt.h, is this a package I should have?
> 
> Nico
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>  "It has been said that there are only two businesses that
>   refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and
>                the computer industry." 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Nico De Ranter
> Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B)
> Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
> 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
> Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
> e-mail: nic...@so...
> 
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---------------------------------------------------------
 "It has been said that there are only two businesses that
  refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and
               the computer industry." 
---------------------------------------------------------
Nico De Ranter
Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B)
Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
e-mail: nic...@so...

Howdy,

I'm trying to install Mondo 1.19. When I run install.sh I get

In file included from mondo-tools.c:9:
my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
In file included from mondo-newt.c:10:
my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
In file included from mondo-restore.c:176:
my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
chmod: getting attributes of `mondo-restore': No such file or directory
In file included from mondo-tools.c:9:
my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
In file included from mondo-newt.c:10:
my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory
In file included from mondo-tarme.c:59:
my-stuff.h:6: newt.h: No such file or directory

What is newt.h, is this a package I should have?

Nico

---------------------------------------------------------
 "It has been said that there are only two businesses that
  refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and
               the computer industry." 
---------------------------------------------------------
Nico De Ranter
Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B)
Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
e-mail: nic...@so...

I'm puzzled, worried, worried, and tired.  

What tool can I use to extract the LZO files Mondo creates?  lzop can't
grok them, and file says they are "ASCII cpio archive (pre-SVR4 or
odc)".  

I've tried a few cpio options, skimmed through the man page, and am no
more enlightened.  Something tells me that a pipe is involved to figure
this one out...hmmmm.


Situation: In the middle of a painfully long full backup to a 2x burner,
errors were detected in a few of the archives while extracting them to
another machine.  

* Should I redo the whole thing?  

* What did I miss during the backup that would hint that the archives
were bad?

* ...or are they "OK", but I'm missing something?

I'm about to dump this backup, stay up all night flipping disks (again
:( ), but switch to bzip at a low compression rate (familiar, reliable).

Anyone want to give me sage advice?

Hugo:

I have downloaded and attempted to use Mondo on my Sony Vaio laptop. I am
running RedHat 7.2 version 2.4.9-13.  The test settings as described in the
latest "LinuxJournal" using Mindi work fine.  However, when I try to use Mondo,
I get a few errors and some unexpected results.  If I press the enter key when
prompted for a new CD before the 2nd CD completely spins up, the program bombs. 
If I wait until the CD has spun up and stops, I get an error describing "illegal
request" but Mondo continues until completion.  

I then boot from the CD and during the compare I get a lot of miss compare of
tar files and CD errors when the 2nd CD is inserted.  After Mondo completes I
receive a prompt to run "bug-me."  However, I get errors messages regarding the
floppy format.  I've tried new floppies, one formatted as DOS, and one format
for ext3.  All with the same results.  

I have tried both the RPM and the TARed versions of your latest release.

I then tried the RPM version on my desktop which is running on an older Asus
board with an AMD 500 MHz chip and a Plextor CD drive.  The program works fine
with the exception that it utilizes more CD's than I thought would be necessary.
 I had to stop the program when it requested the 4 CD - my wife needed to use
the PC and I had to leave for work.

Anyway I suspect that the problem has to do with the Vaio CD/Floppy drivers. I
have looked at your web site and did not find anyone that has reported a similar
problem.

Thanking you in advance for your thoughts on this situation,

Tom

Id love to help, but the only use I would be is for testing.. I have slim
to no development experience at all. Theres a guy a work who knows freebsd
inside and out. Ill see if I can drag him into this to see if he can help. 
As far as  busybox goes, I would think that picobsd is the freebsd
equivalent http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/
also, there is already a freebsd port of afio. 
Let me know what else we would really need to know, so I can ask Joe. ;)

regards,
Jason

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|  Jason Welsh   ja...@mo...  |
|        http://monsterjam.org         |
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Losing your drivers' license is just God's way of saying "BOOGA,
BOOGA!"

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Hugo Rabson wrote:

> It has been discussed. What we really need is a FreeBSD user whose brains we can pick. I know nothing about FreeBSD's kernel, the way it boots, whether it uses a ramdisk, ... Well, actually, I know nothing about FreeBSD :-/ Nor I know if FreeBSD supports busybox (or vice versa). Aside from my ignorance, there is no technical reason why Mondo can't be ported to *BSD. It's just that no-one has committed themselves to it yet.
> 
> Would you like to participate in the porting of Mondo to FreeBSD? Do you know anyone in the FreeBSD community who would like to join in as well? I would be seriously interested in doing a port if a couple of existing FreeBSD users would be willing to participate & perhaps offer technical assistance.
> 
> -Hugo
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jason W <ja...@mo...> wrote:
> >Hey, this seems to work pretty good for linux.. has anone possibly hacked
> >this to back up a remote freebsd box? If not, does anyone know of a
> >similar utility for FreeBSD?
> >
> >regards,
> >Jason
> 
> 
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