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[Moe Binkerman]

Does anyone have experience running (or trying to run) debian on the Elite-4
Zero Footprint PC? I've searched via google, but the only references I can
find to it and linux are a bunch of C64 guys commenting on how it looks like
a Commodore64. One of them says its good with linux, but its just a 1
sentence comment not backed up by anything, and plus they're talking about
an old version with a celeron 733 CPU. I really like this design of it, but
if it doesn't run debian then forget it. I could live without the USB, but
video, sound, the CDR-burner and the built-in network are must haves.

The company's stupid website doesn't mention linux compatability, but here
is the machine:

[url]http://www.cybernetman.com/default.cfm?docId=616[/url]

I'm looking at the ZPC-4023 P4 2.4ghz

Thanks.

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[Ahmed Charles]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good USB
CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I
don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows.

Thanks

Ahmed Charles

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[cls@truffula.sj.ca.us]

I like the idea of copying the package selections and
letting apt reinstall. But there will still be a lot of
questions from the install scripts and stuff.

If Perrin is perfectly happy with his old machine,
and it's on the same LAN as the new one with the fresh
hard drive, why not just tar+ssh the whole thing over?

Boot Knoppix on the new box, get a shell and go "sudo su -"
to get root. Give root a password.
Partition the new drive.
Make file systems and swap areas.
Mount what will be the new root at /target and mount any other
new partitions whereever they are going to go under /target/.
Make any storage management symlinks. Eg,
cd /target
mkdir usr/home
ln -s usr/home home
if you keep /home and /usr on the same partition.

Make the directories you're *not* going to copy across,
mkdir /target/{tmp,proc}
mkdir -p /target/var/log/{apache,exim,gdm,ksymoops,news}

ifconfig and route as needed, then /usr/sbin/startssh

Then on the old box, telinit 1 to stop any pesky daemons, then
ssh -l root new.box.IP.address uname -a

to see if the new box is listening, and then something like

cat > /tmp/leavem <<Yowza
../proc
../tmp
../var/log
Yowza
cd /
tar cjf - -X /tmp/leavem . | ssh -l root 192.168.new.box tar xjf - -C /target

to copy the entire system except the logs and proc.

Back on the new box, if the partitioning is different, edit /target/etc/fstab.
If other hardware is different, edit /target/etc/modules as needed.
Then shutdown the new box and reboot with some rescue disk,
bf24 root=/dev/hda1
or whatever.
Log in, and run /sbin/lilo. What did I miss? The new system is
a faithful clone, isn't it? Nicely defragmented, too.
That should be a lot faster than reinstalling.


Cameron





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