On 8/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Dangler</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jdangler@atlantic.net">jdangler@atlantic.net</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have the basic system installed and updated on my laptop.<br>Aside from the problem of the splash, everything seems to be well.<br>I'm wondering what direction to go next?</blockquote><div><br>
You're the boss... just lead the way.. I hope that's why you installed gentoo!! :) <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out!<br>
It's too flaky at the moment.<br>I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a desktop<br>environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in case of a bork<br>(either from software or operator error)
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Try SystemRescueCd. Is bootable and has tools that allows you to backup
partitions. You can place you current partition in other place of you
disk or even on a cd. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm also thinking that some security would be in order here (anti-virus at<br>least, but I've also read about others like port sentry, iptables, etc).
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Well.. I'd advise you iptables. And that's all you need. You won't need
anti-virus, though you can use it. I've used BitDefender some time ago..<br>
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Fernando.<br>