[slackintosh-users] Thinking about Lenny
- From: Craig Cooper <craig.cooper@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users <slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:39:17 +1000
Hi Team,
I have since gone back to Mac OS 9 <sigh>, and although I have it
decked out with games and sexy apps, and emulators - the darn thing
just crashes too often (like 5 times a day, compare to Linux's...
well, never!).
To overcome the (what I believe are) shortcomings in Slackintosh, and
to offset the hours and days wasted in compiling SlackBuilds, I
recently downloaded 'debian-503-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso', and have
not had a chance to try it out yet, but the repository looks well
populated with powerpc debs.
I need a method of imaging my iBook hard drive (not easy, as it does
not have molex power connectors (or any for that matter).
I will need to do it over the network to a PC, via a
boot-disk/ram-disk combination. I have plenty of room for the image,
and can run it overnight at 100BaseT speeds (need to back up about
20GB off a 30GB drive).
Anyone know if I could do this from the command line of Slackintosh
boot cd? This would be totally great if possible - the partition is a
HFS Extended (HFS+), which I believe is supported. Maybe a DD command
after mounting cifs.
Cheers folks,
themacmeister
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