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Distribution Specific Notes</H1 ><P >Below are distribution notes from past experiences. If you have additional notes that you would like to add for other distributions, please forward them to me.</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="FEDORA3" ></A >7.1. Fedora Core 3 and 4</H2 ><P >The scripts now reflect Fecorda Core 4, so you should not have to make any changes to these <A HREF="thescripts.html" >scripts</A >.</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >I tested the above on a fresh installation of FC3. I had problems with devices after booting when I worked with a system that had been upgraded from FC2 to FC3.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="KNOPPIX" ></A >7.2. Knoppix</H2 ><P >I recently started using <A HREF="http://www.knoppix.org/" TARGET="_top" >Knoppix</A >. <A HREF="mailto:pon at iki dot fi" TARGET="_top" >Pasi Oja-Nisula</A > reports:</P ><A NAME="AEN571" ></A ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="BLOCKQUOTE" ><P >For me the best thing about using Knoppix is that I don't need a specific boot medium for each machine, but I can use the same tools all the time. And hardware support in Knoppix is really great. I don't have that much experience with different platforms, but all the machines I've tried have worked fine, scsi drivers are found and so on.</P ><P >I'm doing this recovery thing by copying the backups over the network to other machine. The restore involves booting the Knoppix cd, fetching the metadata.tar.gz from the network machine. Then make.dev, mount.dev, fetching the other tar.gz files, grub and reboot. Some typing involved but thanks to your scripts it's quite straighforward. Unless changing from ide to scsi or something, but even then it's not that difficult, since Linux is easy to restore to different hardware.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ><P >Let me add to that that <A HREF="http://www.knoppix.org/" TARGET="_top" >Knoppix</A > detects USB devices for you, which is really nice. They make excellent (and roomier) substitutes for the ZIP drive.</P ><P >Also see <A HREF="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04Knoppix" TARGET="_top" ><SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"System recovery with Knoppix"</SPAN ></A >.</P ><P >Do your restore as user <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"root"</SPAN > rather than as user <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"knoppix"</SPAN >. Otherwise you may get some directories and files owned by an oddball user or group. Also, for <A HREF="http://www.knoppix.org/" TARGET="_top" >Knoppix</A >, we tar the first stage stuff saving numeric user & group values instead of by name. The names may point to different numbers on knoppix, so we would be restoring the files incorrectly.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN583" ></A >7.3. finnix</H2 ><P ><A HREF="Http://Www.Finnix.Org/" TARGET="_top" >Finnix</A > has some of the same advantages of Knoppix. In addition, it runs in command line mode with mouse support, which is great for the task at hand. It's small, under 100 MB as of this writing, so you can remaster it with your first stage data on it. It boots quickly. And it has LVM support. And Zile, a subset of Emacs. 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