Re: System Reinstall Setup
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 09:31:07AM -0500, David wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
> > > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
> > > something that I can boot up and then remove the CD.
> >
> > My backup strategy is similar to yours. I regularly create tars of
> > my file systems and put them on CD-RW. I dont have something to boot
> > the system yet, in case this should be necessary some day, but this
> > shouldnt be much of a problem. The Debian installation floppies
> > should suffice for this. If not there are lots of rescue floppy
>
> That's what I'd like to get away from, however, is the dependency upon
> floppies. They seem so unreliable nowadays.
You could easily make a bootable CD out of such a rescue floppy image.
Regards
Matthias
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