Hello,
I'm in the process of selling my laptop (alas, I have fallen to the tablet disease ) and in a bid to improve its saleability have opted to supply it crud-free (fresh W7 SP1 install, one or two of the nice Lenovo tools but that's it. No Norton).
I would also like to provide a backup of this configuation on DVDs. This would be a straight snapshot of the HDD, so if it was used in another system Windows would winge and de-activate and crash, most likely.
After reviewing a couple of Linux-based backup solutions, I have found that they generally don't support restoration from removable media (compressed, my image takes up 2 and-a-bit DVDs).
To me, the problem is simple: given the usual way of passing data from a file in Linux, i.e:-
...find a way of getting the terminal to prompt to change media after every successive file, without closing stdin (causing the problem to think it's finished) and automounting the media when inserted.Code:cat file1 file2 file3 >program
I think this would be best solved "the Linux way", without resorting to C. But I suspect cat would need to be swapped out for this to work properly.
Has this problem already been solved?