On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:43:45PM +0200, Fred Verschueren wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering if my question is too trivial to get an answer but be sure > for me it is not.
You need to remember that there aren't very many people here (at least, judging from the number of people who post or reply). For some reason, CLFS seems to attract people who prefer IRC. > Maybe I have put the question in a wrong mailinglist . > > Anyway can anyone give some hint where I can start searching for a solution. > I'm willing to do some research myself but for this I have no idea where > to start. > It was the sort of question that comes up fairly frequently, in a variety of slightly different forms, on blfs-support: try checking their archives for ideas and suggestions. The big question is how you intend to restore the system (e.g. boot to another system on a different partition, or boot from a Live/rescue CD) - your answer will determine what resources are (not) available (a second system ought to have the usual tools, a rescue CD might be _very_ limited in what is available, or else might not be able to be unmounted - not handy if you only have one CD/DVD drive). Similarly, consider if you will need to do bare-metal recovery if the hard disk fails. Creating an 'installer' DVD is not that interesting to most LFS or CLFS users - for our next build, we want the _latest_ versions, it's how we do things ;) I can tell you that creating a bootable CD with enough on it to be useful is quite an exercise in itself - in my case I've got x86 and ppc64 CDs based on uclibc: spartan, clunky, but _just_ enough to either unmount it (so, /usr is on the CD, /bin is vry minimal) and mount another CD/DVD, or to bring up the NIC statically and scp a backup from my network. But, I found the process sufficiently tiresome that I won't be doing it again until my current CDs are no longer usable. Conversely, being able to restore from a backup *should* be of interest to everybody. I would imagine you could boot from a Live CD, mount the usb stick, and untar it to restore the system. It's the sort of thing that is worth practicing, to (hopefully) prove it can be done before you _need_to_ do it. Just don't trash the existing system while you're testing the restore process ;) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-support
