CF-19 DOS NIC Drivers

[Creoden]

I'm trying to make a ghost image of a CF-19FHGAXAM, via a network session, but for the life of me, I can't find drivers that will work for the NIC (which is a Marvell Yukon 88E8055), I've tried to use the drivers from Marvell, but they don't load properly, I've also tried a 3com driver that was apparently compatible, but it didn't work either, has anyone had any luck with a ghost network disk on a CF-19?

[i58sr]

I can’t help with a network session but how about this…. Partition your hard drive into two drives like this…

C: Local Disk
D: Backup

Ghost C: to D. This works great. You can reimage in just a couple of minutes.

Nick

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[chris-lej]

you could also take a linux live distribution like ubuntu install the iso to an usb drive, boot up your machine and make a backup using dd - wich will read out the whole drive bit by bit and make a image of the whole device or the partition you want to backup.

case one - the ammount of sourcedata is low (less than 8 or 10 gig) - then you can just use a large osb stich running the liuxos and being the backupmedia
case two - the ammount od backupdata is high (more than 10 gig) then you need to have a external backupdribe lik a usb hdd

0. download ubuntu iso image (il take 32 bits so it should work on all dev. 32/64) http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

1. put in usb-stick with unetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
- the program also offers a one klick download of various isos - so if you get iso via unetbootin you dont need to do step one

2. bootup usb stick - choice try out ubuntu opting !!!!!dont install - you will loose all data on your device!!!
" TRYOUT=YES" "INSTALL UBUNTO=NO"

3. OPEN UP A TERMINAL WINDOWS - ON THE STANDARD UNITY WINDOW MANAGER YOU WILL DO THIS BY:
STRG+ALT+T OR JUST TYPE "TERMINAL" into the search feaöld on the desktop and klick the symbol locking like dos$PROMPT

now we have ti fin out what our drives are named like i nt he system

4. type fdisk -l

that should lock like this

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   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   241813503   120905728   83  Linux
/dev/sda2       241815550   250068991     4126721    5  Erweiterte
/dev/sda5       241815552   250068991     4126720   82  Linux Swap / Solaris

Platte /dev/sdb: 2019 MByte, 2019556352 Byte
63 Köpfe, 62 Sektoren/Spur, 1009 Zylinder, zusammen 3944446 Sektoren
Einheiten = Sektoren von 1 × 512 = 512 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Festplattenidentifikation: 0x00056f78

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *          62     3941153     1970546    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

now identify devices

sda - is first hdd
sdb - is second
sdc - is third
and so on
sda1 - is first partition of first hdd
sda2 - second partition

and so on

so lets say you see the boot stick /dev/sdb with its partitions ,
you see your toughbook drive sda with ntfs partition
and see your backupdevice (external usb hdd) sdc with fat32 partition - wich is mounted to the folder /media/<devicename eg. sundisk/trancend etc.>

RULE: all mass media is mounted to /media/

so
cd /media
ls

will tell you wich devices are mounted

5. performe the backup using dd

the syntax of dd is easy (you can find helpfime by typing "man dd" (Q=quit))

dd if=<inputdevice or folder> of=<outputfile or device> bs=blocksize

in our case we want to backup the device sdb to a file in sdc-wih is mounted to /media/<devicename>

sudo dd if=sda of=/media/<devicename of your external hdd>/backupfile.iso bs=1M

(for case one users: sudo dd if=sda of=backupfile.iso bs=1M)

(please be aware that linux shell is case sensitive "m in not the same as M")
(sudo is a prefix wich executes the command with superuser privilegues)

there will b no output from the programm till it is finished but you will hear the noise of hdd/see led


6. check file for reasonable size of the created image

7. backup done

8. restore

you will
8.1again boot up with the live usb linux system
8.2 choice the !!!!"tryout option"!!!!
8.3 open up a terminal (strg+alt+t)
8.4 and again look for your devices wirh (sudo fdisk -l)
8.4 then restore with dd

sudo dd if=/media/<devicename>/backup.iso of=sda bs=1M

9. done - clean backup/restore/clone a harddrive with a linux live usb drive



i hope i gave some hep with that and all will work for you fine