robh
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Posted: Nov. 03 2005,20:08 |
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thats it, i've had it with backing up my install. i think i'm gonna just fly solo and damn the consequences.
thanks for your slightly more verbose help brianw, but it seems that i'm not yet understanding the syntax/code enough to perform this task. i followed your above advice and the cpu has been maxed out for an hour now, with no sign of my compressed drive image coming out the other end.
i can wipe this 3.2 GB drive with all zeros in about 10 mins, so i reckon that an hour should be plenty of time to wait.
SaidinUnleashed described this as the "most efficient way" of imaging, but i'm on day 3 of trying now and still no luck. The man page for bzip2 is as dry and uninformative to a newbie, who is trying to learn the concepts of linux, as ~J.P.'s advice. Sorry J.P. but i want to know what the command is doing and what the operands are doing to further understand. i tried the one liner that you gave me to no avail, maybe i'm just not up to the skill level required for using linux.
ah well...
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Presario 1240
Pentium 266Mhz
96MB RAM
~3.2GB HD
full HD install of dsl 3.2
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