[slackintosh-users] Re: Thinking about Lenny

  • From: "Scott Weeden" <zenbutterfly@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:32:56 -0600

You might want to consider investing in a Laptop to IDE adaptor.

http://www.bay-wolf.com/hddadapter.htm

These will allow you to plug your laptop hdd directly into your desktop and then image it from there. Being fairly inexpensive, they are a great item to have around for anyone that owns a laptop, and has personally saved my bacon after a laptop failure when I needed to recover data.

I picked mine up at a local computer store for $5 but a (very) quick search on Google products shows the cheapest one (after shipping) they have listed being found at

http://www.thefinalclick.com/Laptop-to-IDE-Hard-Drive-Adapter-Color-Black-Warranty-Lifetime_p_74901.html

Hope this helps.

Scott Weeden

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From: "Craig Cooper" <craig.cooper@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:39 PM
To: "slackintosh-users" <slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [slackintosh-users] Thinking about Lenny

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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