On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:25:31PM -0800): > > donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups... > > i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well... > > a bootable cdrom is quite hard to make... rockridge extensions and all > that jazz. no, you cannot just "dd your harddisk onto the cd" (if you > could dd to cdr), and expect it to boot. you'd need ramdisks et al.
Nah, dead simple:) using cdrecord/mkisofs/xcdroast from woody (sources) mkdir /tmp/cd ncftp some-debian-mirror get debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-2.88/rescue.bin into /etc/cd/rescue.bin cp whatever /tmp/cd mkdir /tmp/cdboot.catalog xcdroast set it up choose Create CD choose Master Track choose master source select /tmp/cd choose boot options enter rescue.bin and boot.catalog choose create session/image calculate size build image and burn it -- groetjes, carel