Johan Vromans wrote:
> Assuming your CD-Writer is on the subject system, creating the images
> on CD-R would involve:
> - a standalone boot, to make sure the file system is not used. It's
> easy to create a Linux boot floppy for this purpose.
> - a tool that runs from the boot disk (or RAM disk) that takes the
> files from the file system, compresses them, and writes out the CD
> image(s) _on the fly_. Note that multiple CDs may be required.
> The first (or only) CD can be made bootable with the Linux boot
> floppy.
>
> To recover:
> - a standalone boot, see above.
> - a tool to format the disk (put fdisk on the floppy).
> - a restore tool, that fetches the files from the CD(s) and restores
> them to the disk.
> - a way to restore the boot information.
Have you ever tried bootcd from the debian distribution (perl scripts if
I remember right)? bootcd does it all for you. It even can boot your
complete system from CD (for firewalls etc) and keep its configuration
on a single floppy (if different from the CD).
Drawback is - I have to admit - that it can only hold 650MB of data and
there is no way to pack this data.
uwe
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