> 2.It seems there is a bug in mkisfos with "-b" option. Let's say I want to > backup > /home/me/x/y/z > but my boot image is located in > /home/me/x/y/a > So when I try to specify ../a/boot.img - mkisofs fails to find it,
It's not a bug. You *have to* have boot.img *within* the tree you pass down to mkisofs, not outside. > 3. What I was trying to do was to create a DVD bootable disk with a tar > archive of the whole system. Keep in mind limitations discussed in http://www.mail-archive.com/cdwrite%40other.debian.org/msg04256.html. > I will have to place a bootable disk image and the tar archive on a separate > individual disks. Yes, burn bootable CD and tar-formatted DVD, so that you can boot from CD, eject it, put in DVD and restore with 'tar xvf /dev/scd0'. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]