Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:15:49 Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yes, true, but I think there are alternatives, but I haven't had time to test
> it. First boot with a small CD that has an OS that enables USB devices, then
> boot from them. I cannot see why this would work, but according to some
> documentation I have seen, it does.
It does sound peculiar...
Anyway, the USB key ought to work with *most* recent machines.
> The other solution is to use something like knoppix, syscdrec or ReaR or your
> own distro recovery disk.
Or something like Toms Root & Boot with a static Bacula added.
For that matter, one can always have just a static Bacula on the key,
boot the machine from anything that'll boot it, then mount the USB key
and run Bacula off USB.
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