On Sunday 02 June 2002 06:41 pm, Tim wrote:

I have been experimenting with partimage, a Linux program somewhat like Norton Ghost for backing up partitions. A good way to use it is to boot Linux from a bootable CD and run partimage from there. I bought a 100 mb drive, and can back up all my computers to this drive over the network.

(see http://www.partimage.org and http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/ for more info. Unfortunately this takes just a bit of knowledge to use.)

I have a Syquest drive (1.5 GB) I'd like to use to backup the home directory. I've started to look into using taper, but got side tracked with trying to recompile the kernel. Fancy that! I can't get the modules to compile, so I'm currently stuck.

It occurred to me that it would be very easy to create a bootable CD booting Linux with Xfractint on it. These CDs create a RAM disk with a miniature Linux on it. Linux, of course, can access Windows file systems, so the resulting fractals could be saved to disk and accessed under windows. This could be put on one of those baby-sized CDs.

I am not sure how practical this is. To be workable, it would have to be extremely easy to use since the target audience for this would be people who have Windows but don't want to install Linux. More Linux- knowledgeable people would already have Linux on their PCs.

If we could launch it from windows, it may be useable. Once I start making the changes to Xfractint to make it event centric instead of polling centric, the DOS version becomes unmaintainable. This may start soon. I made some changes to unixscr.c to make the xlib calls more current and possibly more robust. Still crashes when resizing, however. Probably due to the window size not matching sxdots and sydots because of timing issues. Jonathan