IFL Newbie

[johnstrasser]

Hi Folks,

I've been using Bootit, IFD & IFW for years to manage partitions and backups for years. I'm now in a situation where I have to rescue an old (PATA) drive from a MAC Powerbook G4.

I actually still have a USB gizmo that I can plug the drive into.

The Bios sees the drive, but when I used BIBM to attempt a backup both the mouse and keyboard locked up.
So I tried IFW. And while IFW could "see" the drive it refused to back it up (saying it completed when nothing else was done)

I now have just finished slogging through all sorts of installs to get IFL "installed" in my Linux mint partition. And now I still don't know what to do. I'm not stupid and yet the FAQ "running IFL without a boot disk" totally confuses me.

Do I understand things correctly that I can ONLY run IFL from a boot environment? The problem is that locks up my keyboard and mouse. So it's a no go.

Is there any way to get this to behave like a "normal" program?

[TeraByte Support]

the old disk format isn't supported so do entire drive and tick the box for
backup unused sectors, it will do the drive raw from section 0 - n

the target drive will need to be the same size or larger. same size would
be best as I'm not sure if their layout was based on the disk size.

"johnstrasser" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

Hi Folks,

I've been using Bootit, IFD & IFW for years to manage partitions and backups
for years. I'm now in a situation where I have to rescue an old (PATA) drive
from a MAC Powerbook G4.

I actually still have a USB gizmo that I can plug the drive into.


The Bios sees the drive, but when I used BIBM to attempt a backup both the
mouse and keyboard locked up.
So I tried IFW. And while IFW could "see" the drive it refused to back it up
(saying it completed when nothing else was done)

I now have just finished slogging through all sorts of installs to get IFL
"installed" in my Linux mint partition. And now I still don't know what to
do. I'm not stupid and yet the FAQ "running IFL without a boot disk" totally
confuses me.

Do I understand things correctly that I can ONLY run IFL from a boot
environment? The problem is that locks up my keyboard and mouse. So it's a
no go.

Is there any way to get this to behave like a "normal" program?

[johnstrasser]

Thanks for the help on solving the immediate problem. I appreciate the rescue

My other question still stands though...Is IFL basically designed to only run from a bootable image of some sort? Can I burn it to a VM?

Because it just seems counter intuitive to me, especially when compared to IFD or IFW.

[TeraByte Support(PP)]

IFL can be installed in a Linux installation as long as it has the required libs available to install. If you were using the "Running Image for Linux Without a Boot Disk" article, that's using bootfile, which is probably not what you want. This is the article for installing: https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/howto ... _linux.htm
(The steps in the article are for an older version so slightly different now, but still basically the same.)

The general procedure to install in Linux is:

1. Boot into Linux.
2. Download or copy in the ifl_en_gui.zip file.
3. Extract it.
4. Open a Terminal and go to the folder with the extracted IFL files.
5. Install the required libs: https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=566
6. From the Terminal, run the 'setup' script: sudo ./setup
7. Add the user to the disk group: https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=567
8. Restart.
9. Open a Terminal and go to the folder with the extracted IFL files.
10. Run IFL: sudo ./imagel

Note that you shouldn't back up mounted file systems in Linux. So, you're going to be limited to backing up/restoring partitions other than those used by the currently booted Linux.

If you're just wanting to use IFL to access the USB drive, booting to the IFL boot media is the simplest method. You can also setup an IFL partition (copy an IFL UFD, for example) and boot it with BIBM if it's installed.

If you want to run IFL in a VM you can use MakeDisk in Windows to create a ISO file you can use to boot the VM.