[e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition is corrupted and fails to boot. It could also be used to revert a system back to "factory" specs. Any thoughts on the idea? Trev. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
> From: Trevor Ouellette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It > would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition is corrupted > and fails to boot. > > It could also be used to revert a system back to "factory" specs. I'd rather have a 'rescue' boot option on the CD that works like Mandrake 8.1's, mounting the HD partition(s) automatically under the ramdisk-based /mnt so you can just 'chroot /mnt' and be running more or less normally while you repair things. Les -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
Trevor Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It > would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition is corrupted > and fails to boot. > > It could also be used to revert a system back to "factory" specs. > > Any thoughts on the idea? > > Trev. Sounds attractive. Got anything working or just planting the seed. Regards, -- Darrell May DMC Netsourced.com http://netsourced.com http://myEZserver.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
Trevor/Darrel, We use Altiris Deployment Server to manage our Win9X wstns.. This has something called bootworks which is said to be resident in a partition(or sector) marked as "bad" so doesnt show up in Windows. They use this to boot first into dos, connect via smb to the server and look for images to blast onto the rest of the hdd. It would be interesting to see if this idea could be integrated so that a hidden partition could hold the Rescue stuff.. Thanks for bringing this up. -Ruwan Darrell May wrote: > > Trevor Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It > > would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition is > corrupted > > and fails to boot. > > > > It could also be used to revert a system back to "factory" specs. > > > > Any thoughts on the idea? > > > > Trev. > > Sounds attractive. Got anything working or just planting the seed. > > Regards, > > -- > Darrell May > DMC Netsourced.com > http://netsourced.com > http://myEZserver.com > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
the Aries server by Celestic has a function like this - 2 diffrent boot options, one boots off a diffrent partition and extracts a darball over either the system or data partition, restoring it to factory defaults. The other idea i had was to make the rescue disk a standard ISO9660 bootable image, burnable by most cd burning software, or a floppy boot disk/rom data disk. James -- James Robertson e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D2P Distributed Publishing Protocol 3/243 Bridge Road, Richmond 3121 Victoria, Australia Tel: +61 3 9429 3233 Fax: +61 3 9427 0929 Web: http://www.d2p.com.au -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
Les, Yes, that's a good point. Keep it off the target drive. Trev. > -Original Message- > From: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:24 PM > To: Trevor Ouellette; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition > > > > From: Trevor Ouellette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It > > would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition > is corrupted > > and fails to boot. > > > > It could also be used to revert a system back to "factory" specs. > > I'd rather have a 'rescue' boot option on the > CD that works like Mandrake 8.1's, mounting > the HD partition(s) automatically under the > ramdisk-based /mnt so you can just 'chroot /mnt' > and be running more or less normally while > you repair things. > > Les > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
Hi Darrell, I don't even have a line of code... :-) I don't think it's anything urgent. I've seen the Rescue Partition used before and it got me thinking... I've seen this implemented on Windows laptops. Just in case Windows gets corrupted, I guess . Trev. > -Original Message- > From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:59 PM > To: Trevor Ouellette; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition > > > > Trevor Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Does anybody have any use for a Rescue Partition on the hard drive? It > > would be used for rescuing the system when the root partition is > corrupted > > and fails to boot. > > > > It could also be used to revert a system back to "factory" specs. > > > > Any thoughts on the idea? > > > > Trev. > > Sounds attractive. Got anything working or just planting the seed. > > Regards, > > -- > Darrell May > DMC Netsourced.com > http://netsourced.com > http://myEZserver.com > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
James, I about that. And they use 2.4 kernel in their new gateway server. I wonder if they have a problem with PPTP, RealAudio, FTP and IPSec masqs. Trev. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > James Robertson > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:01 AM > To: Ruwan Jayasinghe > Cc: Dev Info > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition > > > the Areis server by Celestic has a function like this - 2 diffrent boot > options, one boots off a diffrent partition and extracts a darball over > either the system or data partition, restoring it to factory defaults. > > The other idea i had was to make the rescue disk a standard ISO9660 > bootable image, burnable by most cd burning software, or a floppy boot > disk/rom data disk. > > James > > > -- > James Robertson > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > D2P > Distributed Publishing Protocol > 3/243 Bridge Road, Richmond 3121 > Victoria, Australia > Tel: +61 3 9429 3233 > Fax: +61 3 9427 0929 > Web: http://www.d2p.com.au > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Rescue Partition
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Trevor Ouellette wrote: > I about that. And they use 2.4 kernel in their new gateway server. I > wonder if they have a problem with PPTP, RealAudio, FTP and IPSec masqs. I suspect that some vendors might have proprietary kernel modules for dealing with some of these protocols. Alternatively, it might be possible to deal with some of these protocols using user space programs, via netfilter's QUEUE target and the libipq API. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Grouphttp://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporationhttp://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
