Kern Sibbald wrote:
> As most of you know, the Rescue CDROM is pretty much dead. My original idea
> was to build it from the kernel and data on your system, but in the end, this
> was just too much work, because every distro does booting different, and even
> within a single distro the boot procedures change over time. However, I have
> now started remastering the Kubuntu livecd onto a USB key, and it looks
> really promising. It has the advantage that it uses a single OS that already
> works, knows how to detect most hardware, and can be relatively easily
> remastered (add/remove packages, apply updates, or upgrade, ...). In
> addition, the USB key is written so that changes to the OS and your home
> directory are rewritten dynamically to the key -- giving it a persistence.
The one downside I see to this is that there's still surprisingly many
machines out there that WILL NOT, NOHOW, NO WAY, PERIOD, boot from a USB
device. *ANY* USB device.
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