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Topic: Restore and back-up to USBkey, I can't get the restore working.

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nsa84

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Posted: July 24 2004,17:50

Hey fellow DSL users,

I have a little problem, with this DSL version 0.7.2. All you folks tell on the forum is that you can backup and restore setting on a floppy or removeble media...

I i'm wondering, if this is possible to do this on a usb key.
At this moment, it won't be able to work.
I can't get it restoring the settings form the desktop, (maximalisation, full enhancements etc...)
It fails when i try tot do this from a floppy disk, or a usb key.... during bootup width dsl restore or dsl restore=fd0 or dsl restore=sda1

Next to that i have a problem with a intel 810 chipset NIC... This one is dropping the connection if i want to download by example firefox. Only a reboot and a broken download is the result on this moment....

Next to these smalll problems.... I realy like the idea to have a small enviroment on a disk......

greeetings nsa84,
out of holland.

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roberts

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Posted: July 25 2004,00:07

You can certainly backup and restore to a USB key device. I use that exclusively. One thing is that it is not hot-swappable. You must have the USB key plugged in prior to powering up. Also, some USB devices have no partition, ie. /dev/sda

Have you tried to mount the USB device with the mount.app utiliy program on the Enhanced desktop? Or manually used the mount command to see that the device can been seen and what partition or not it may have.

As far as downloading firefox., it may be ibiblio and not necessarily your card. Try the command ifconfig eth0 and see it there are too many errors. Can you download from other sites? I know sometimes ibibilio can be slow.

cbagger01

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Posted: July 25 2004,01:21

FYI,

You can also mount and unmount from the emelfm file manager.

If your mount point is /mnt/sda1, you can navigate to the /mnt directory.

Then Right-Click on the "sda1" directory item and choose "Mount" from the context menu.

nsa84

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Posted: July 25 2004,02:40

Bove off you two guys are correct..... :'(

silly me, during bootup you can do a restore.

As example under the F2 menu is printed "dsl restore={hda1,sda1,fd0, etc}"
So i figured dsl restore={sda1}
OEPS that device doesn't exist........
Saw the probleem this evening, solved by using dsl restore=sda1.....

my boot command is now dsl mydsl=sda1 restore=sda1 enhance, is there anyway off making this shorter.....
I mean I'm a programmer and programmers are suppossed to be lacy :laugh:

Back-up and restore problem is solved now, leave's the problem with the Intel NIC stilll active...

dmesg | grep eth0 results in:
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:02:A5:79:32:78, IRQ 20.

ifconfig results in:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:A5:79:32:78
inet addr:192.168.0.22 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1950252 (1.8 MiB) TX bytes:382631 (373.6 KiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:200 (200.0 B) TX bytes:200 (200.0 B)

looks to me if there are lots off erros but.... who am I.

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vague

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Posted: Aug. 02 2004,17:14

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RX packets:2134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

looks like no errors to me.
RX packets: 2134
errors: 0
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not 2134 errors as it might seem (note the colon (:)) (that was not a smiley it was a colon in brackets)

What sort of connection do you have?
Does your NIC connect go straight onto the internet?
Does you NIC give you any trouble when connecting to other machines?
Have you tried another NIC?

This looks like a lot of questions but it is just a standard troubleshooting procedure.

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