Installation Questions

[Bryce C]

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Firewire dirves use the sbp2 module which emulates the drives as SCSI
devices (/dev/sda).
Stuff like:
scsi1 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver (host: ohci1394)
$Rev: 530 $ James Goodwin <jamesg@filanet.com>
SBP-2 module load options:
- Max speed supported: S400
- Max sectors per I/O supported: 255
- Max outstanding commands supported: 8
- Max outstanding commands per lun supported: 1
- Serialized I/O (debug): no
- Exclusive login: yes
...
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node[00:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: Device added: Node[00:1023]  GUID[0050c501e0016073]  [ADS
Technologies, Inc.  ]
ieee1394: Host added: Node[01:1023]  GUID[00130600000039b3]  [Linux
OHCI-1394]


On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 17:03, Austin Godber wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > Austin,
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> > I don't have a linux machine with enough disk space. However, I do have=
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> > external firewire drive with enough space. How can create a backup imag=
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> > my win2K drive on that drive, and then restore it if needed?
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> > Thanks for helping me think out of the box!
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> If Knoppix has support for firewire then you may be in luck.  Just boot=20
> with ths Knoppix CD see if Knoppix can mount the drive, if so, then just=20
>   dump your Win2k image onto that drive (much like my previous mail,=20
> except you wont be putting it on a mounted samba share it will just be=20
> the fw drive, which will be faster).
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> Sadly, I don't own any firewire hardware so I can't say whether knoppix=20
> supports it or not.  Maybe someone else knows.  I kinda browsed around=20
> the knoppix web site and didn't find anything obvious ... yeah wait I=20
> did.  There is an option for "nofirewire" on boot up so it must support=20
> firewire.  Give it a shot.
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> Once you are booted type "dmesg |less" and see if it says anything that=20
> looks like it is associating a firewire device with a disk device (I=20
> don't know exactly how this will look).  But with IDE you see it mention=20
> /dev/hda ... or with SCSI you will see /dev/sd0.  Once you know what=20
> device the firewire drive shows up as then you can check to see what=20
> partitions are present on the drive (if you are not sure) using fdisk.=20
> So type something like "fdisk /dev/firewiredevice"
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> [Oh for this, and mounting, you will have to be root, so after knoppix=20
> starts up and gives you an X session hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get a root=20
> console (you can hit Alt+F5 or F7 to get back to X).]
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> Figure out what partition on the drive you will use.  "p" prints out the=20
> partition tables, "q" wuits without saving.  Once you have figured out=20
> which partition then you can mount that partition using the mount command=
:
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> mount -t filesystemtype /dev/fwdevice<partition#> /mnt/test
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> then you can ls /mnt/test and see that the files you expect to be on the=20
> firewire drive are there.  If so then you can backup to that path.
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> Then hopefully you wont need the backup.  Actually things go pretty=20
> smoothly in an install. so its not all that much to worry about.
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> Austin
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