So much happened recently it's hard to keep track. I formatted a partition that contained GRUB's file. The result is I had a system that wouldn't boot. This where I realize I don't have any rescue floppy anywhere. Luckily I had a Gentoo live CD lying around. I used it to create a GRUB boot floppy.
Once I had my system backup I decided that I wanted the GRUB files on a partition that I didn't move around so much. I selected my first partition which is used to boot XP. This is where I did my second mistake. I overwrote the boot sector of XP. Trying to recover XP was impossible.
Oh well, I decided to back up everything up and reinstall XP. I put it on a partition half the size. I also installed it on a FAT32 system so that I have write access from Linux.
Lots of time wasted for a silly mistake.
Setting up Amanda client on Mandrake. A word for the wise: forget about the rpm package! It doesn't have the service that the server expects: amandad.
The quickest way to make it work is to grab the source from the Amanda web page. Compile and install the client part.
./configure --without-server --with-user=backup --with-group=backup make make install
Next create and add the following lines in the file /etc/xinet.d/amanda:
service amanda
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = backup
server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
Run amcheck on the server to check that the
client is set up properly. You should be set!