Re: ghost for linux?

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:25:31PM -0800):
> > donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups...
> > i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well...
> 
> a bootable cdrom is quite hard to make... rockridge extensions and all
> that jazz. no, you cannot just "dd your harddisk onto the cd" (if you
> could dd to cdr), and expect it to boot. you'd need ramdisks et al.

Nah, dead simple:) using cdrecord/mkisofs/xcdroast from woody (sources)

   mkdir /tmp/cd
   ncftp some-debian-mirror
         get debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-2.88/rescue.bin
             into /etc/cd/rescue.bin
   cp whatever /tmp/cd
   mkdir /tmp/cdboot.catalog

   xcdroast
         set it up
         choose Create CD
                choose Master Track
                       choose master source
                              select /tmp/cd
                       choose boot options
                              enter rescue.bin and boot.catalog
                       choose create session/image
                              calculate size
                              build image
         and burn it

-- 
groetjes, carel