On Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:57:01 Phil Stracchino wrote: > 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.
Yes, it boots on all my laptops quite nicely -- I just have to enable USB boot in the bios. In any case, it seems pretty clear to me that this (USB boot) is the direction we are going. What is nice about this USB key, is you simply plug it in, then copy files to your home directory on the key and when you boot there are just there. There are a few details, but nothing complicated. Much easier than trying to update a CDROM :-) > > > 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. Ah, yes, perhaps that was the trick. Boot a LiveCD then plugin the USB key. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
