<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Wang Tanky The reason im using the tar method is when i boot into system rescue CD, it will start booting and then about half way it comes out with   /bin/sh: Can't access tty; job control turned off   both the tar Method and System rescue cd has problems Can anyone tell me either it is a hardware problem or a software problem...   Even better can you tell me a solution please....   Thanks > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:57:12 -1000 > From: scott@hosef.org > To: tanky_wang_81@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: Error: /bin/sh: Can't access tty; job control turned off > > WangTanky wrote: > > My name is Qifeng Wang. You can call me Hank. I am doing a networking > > project for a primary school and I am using Edubuntu 7.04 for the school > > network. At the moment, the system works properly and effectively. > > However, I have a question about backing up system by using command tar. > > It works find if system is not crashed. But when I tried to use tar to > > back up system to a new hard disk, it did not work. And I try to restore > > Grub by using an Edubuntu Live CD and rebooted system. Still not help. > > > > System says: /bin/sh: Can't access tty; job control turned off > > > > I was really stuck. Do you have any ideas about this? > > Aloha Hank > > Please forgive me if tar is your preferred tool for this. I don't have > a suggestion to help what you are doing. I would ask, though, if you > are looking for a tool to do a bare-metal restore in case of > catastrophe? If so, you may want to look at Clonezilla and/or DRBL. > Clonezilla, either from the live-cd, or launched by PXE from DRBL, is > breathtaking. You can easily image disk to disk, disk to image, image > to disk, partition to partition, partition to image, image to partition, > resize partitions, etc. Your images can be on removable media, a > network drive, a ssh server, etc. > > Example - a few Sundays ago we used DRBL to PXE boot 50 donated > workstations into a Clonezilla environment. In batches of 8 we did a > bare-metal mulitcast restore. It took 5 minutes per group of 8 to do a > complete restore from a blank hard drive to a fully functional Edubuntu > 7.10 desktop. A few computers required the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure > -phigh xserver-xorg" and "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart" commands to > configure the xserver. As for the rest, Edubuntu Gutsy automagically > 'just worked'. The machines were PIII 600-900 mhz with 256mb of ram. > > > --scott <hr />使用新一代 Windows Live Messenger 轻松交流和共享！ <a href='http://messenger.live.cn/' target='_new'>立即体验！</a></body> </html>