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05 aprile 2006

sgcop - install from images

The SG20 don't has got an usb device and actually i don't know if the bios support boot from usb devices over pcmcia, so i make an image of sgcop pre-installed on my system. To make sgcop working with this image you need:

An easy way to use the images is to burn a multisession disk with systemrescue on it, then open a new session trasferring the image files on cd, so you can restore the images directly from cd.

An alternate solution may be a pendrive.

My SG30 comes with a 20 GB hard disk so i make smaller images from partitions to fit in SG10/20 hard disks.

You can use fdisk to make partitions and partimage to restore the image files on disk.

Before restoring the images make sure you have enough space:

  • 16 MB (boot partition hda1)
  • 1,5 GB (logs partition hda2)
  • 4,0 GB (root partition hda4)

If you want to restore the mbr without partimage exec this command on shell:

dd if=sgcop-mbr of=/dev/hdx

Where hdx is your hard disk device.

After restoring you can mount the 'Logs' partition and delete the file:

/var/ipcop/ethernet/settings

Finally put the hard disk on your sg10/20 and run 'setup'.

Why not ghost? Ghost don't work properly with linux ext3 and grub; finally ghost isn't freeware.