Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

[Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net>]

Paul E Condon declaimed:
> An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo
> Archive, which is software that builds self-booting restore CDs for
> Linux systems. So, I started to try to use it. I found a debian
> package in Woody, and did the standard apt-get ... .  I had mostly no
> problem understanding the man page. But some puzzles lead me to look
> at the Mondo web site, and ...
> 
> From reading the Mondo web site, it appears that there are 
> no documented instances of mondoarchive being used successfully
> on a Debian system, and that Debian kernels are somehow non-
> standard, and difficult to work with. Is this true? And, if true,
> why is there a Debian package of Mondo Archive? 
> 
At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo
Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with
Debian's initrd-enabled kernels which mondo either doesn't handle at all
or doesn't handle well. If you have problems, I'd try building &
installing a kernel with initrd disabled and see if it helps.

> And if not true, who, on this list has experience? Is there a
> different Debian list where I should be going for help on this
> particular package?
> 
See the Mondo website, http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo
They have an active mailing list. Not only do they claim to support
Debian 3.0, I just checked out their website and found that the text
that used to say something like "Why I hate Debian" has been replaced
with a blurb that starts out "I used to badmouth Debian's distro ...
However, recent releases are much improved ..." Thanks, Hugo, that
really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

HTH, PM
-- 
Paul Mackinney
paul@mackinney.net