RE: Recovery Solutions

["Christopher Davis" <cldavis99@speakeasy.net>]

Kristian:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kristian Rink [mailto:afterimage@gmx.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:34 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Recovery Solutions
>
>
>
> Hi Christopher,...
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:40:06 -0500
> "Christopher Davis" <cldavis99@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> > I have not had the best of luck getting Mondo to work
> > correctly under Debian and now am looking for
> some options.
> > Have found:
> > 1.  System Imager -- systemimager.org -- looks
> great, but I
> > want to generate a bootable cdrom to recover
> from, not store
> > on a image server...
> > 2.  mkCDrec -- mkcdrec.ota.be -- Seems to do
> the job like
> > Mondo, until I try to restore the image to a
> machine with a
> > different size hard drive.
>
> I tried several of those packages but in the end
> just fell back to
> using mondo on my Debian boxes. Only thing I'd
> recommend: You should
> try using a recent version of mondo; I remember
> the packages in
> woody being pretty old and not working the way I
> expected. Check out
> the mondo stuff in sarge or sid, works a lot better. :)
>
[...]
Working on this again...I've found Mindi/Mondo in the
unstable packages.  Cannot install due to mindi-kernel not
being available.

How did you work around this?

Thanks!
Christopher Davis