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I am booting a Dell Open Manage Live CD, which appears to have a variant of Linux on it, with the intention of not ever, ever, writing anything to the server’s hard disk

1) I need to install the Wake-on-LAN package ‘into memory’ (a new but interesting concept for a Windows person).
I am root.
I am told I need to do apt-get install ether-wake in a Terminal session but this fails because it seems to be accessing the CD, and the package is not there.
What is the sequence of commands that I should issue to enable me to install this package from “the internet”?

2) I need to write debugging information to a file, presumably on a USB Flash drive, and the command I have been given is (in part) tcpdump -w test.pcap
When I terminate this packet capture (with Ctrl+C) I presume the file is closed off – but I have no idea where it is located (bearing in mind that I have booted from a Live CD), nor how to copy it to a USB Flash drive for later examination.
Again, could someone provide the sequence of commands to enable me to do this?

Thanks!

So long as you are operating linux just from the cd and have not actually installed the linux os, then I don’t believe you can “install” anything on to your hard drive.

Ted:
I noticed in your reply’s picture that you have a Programs folder on your data drive.
Somewhere (over the rainbow) I had gotten the idea that the OS and installed programs
should be on the OS’s drive, so that one didn’t have to reinstall programs when recovering
the OS.

I must be missing something. Can you explain your rationale please.

Thanks,
Dick

When installing programs I always choose to change the destination folder to “Programs” on my data drive. The program itself will run on the c drive just fine. This keeps the size of the c drive to a minimum and thus is easier to image.

Pogo games also require java.

Not all of us work all the time.

Have disabled adblock and also grease monkey (script manager). Still no joy.

Thanks Peter and Clint. Followed your suggestions, but no joy.

Using Sun Virtual box with XP in the box might be an easier solution.
http://www.virtualbox.org/

I believe where you want to go is
Control PanelAll Control Panel ItemsPersonalizationDesktop Background

You are one of the very few.

How do you do it? Do you have two machines to test with? do you restore into a VM? Most home users do not have the hardware to do a true test restore.

I do have multiple OS installed on separate partitions of just one pc. I choose to do the restore option after having created an image. Should one of the images mess me up I would have to resort to a prior image (which I have already tested) and update it or boot to one of my other OS and work from there.

I could, I suppose, set up a new partition just to test restore an image.

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How should a home user manage this? I can assure you that most will not check logs very often and test restores are out of the question.

Wrong. As a home user every time I create a drive image, I turn around and then restore from that image. I don’t want to depend upon an image that doesn’t work.

I just solved this same problem by running System Restore from safe mode.

The free Macrium Relect works great with Windows 7 64 bit.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

I still like the idea of a separate drive for my Win 7 OS which I keep as small as reasonably possible so as to make my frequent drive images smaller and take less time to create. I don’t want my data including all of my program files on my C drive. I keep it on a separate partition as well as my external drive for backup.

Partition Wizard is free and is easy to use.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/

Clonezilla is free and will create a drive image or restore a drive from the image.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/

Does your homegroup network work in both directions for sharing files/folders?

Have you specifically enabled sharing of the printer?

Have you tried temporarily disabling any firewalls?

I have used the free Macrium Reflect software to successfully create images and restore from those images with my new Windows 7 64bit pc. The images are 12 or 13 GB and take about 11-15 mintues to create using the maximum compression. Restoration seems to be a little quicker. I store them on another partition or on an external drive. Easy as pie.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp