Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 December 2006 12:30, James Harper wrote: What would help me the most would be to checkout the current Bacula rescue module from the CVS and run it on your machine and see if it works. I think it would be a good starting point. Fwiw, I raced through the instructions

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-30 Thread James Harper
Fwiw, I raced through the instructions in the README file (never a good idea :) and it built me an iso, but when I tried to boot it I got: No filesystem could mount root, trued: cramfs Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(9,0) The image was

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 28 December 2006 06:56, James Harper wrote: Hi, Kern - I'll go ahead and see what I can do about getting a basic CD rolled. It's been a while since I have done it, so I will be a bit rusty, for sure - and for that reason, I cannot give you a timeframe. However, I'll put

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 28 December 2006 01:04, Dan Trainor wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 20:23, Dan Trainor wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 11:02, James Harper wrote: Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning etc, is

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 03:14, Frank Sweetser wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 09:02:12PM +1100, James Harper wrote: Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning etc, is there any reason that a generic 'bare metal' restore CD could not be made? It looks like

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Trainor
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 20:23, Dan Trainor wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 11:02, James Harper wrote: Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning etc, is there any reason that a generic 'bare metal' restore CD could

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-27 Thread James Harper
Hi, Kern - I'll go ahead and see what I can do about getting a basic CD rolled. It's been a while since I have done it, so I will be a bit rusty, for sure - and for that reason, I cannot give you a timeframe. However, I'll put a fair amount of work into it. I completely see what you're

[Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread James Harper
Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning etc, is there any reason that a generic 'bare metal' restore CD could not be made? It looks like the catalogs and bootstrap files can be recreated with the bscan etc tools, so unless I'm missing something, it should be

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 11:02, James Harper wrote: Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning etc, is there any reason that a generic 'bare metal' restore CD could not be made? It looks like the catalogs and bootstrap files can be recreated with the bscan etc

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread Dan Trainor
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 11:02, James Harper wrote: Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning etc, is there any reason that a generic 'bare metal' restore CD could not be made? It looks like the catalogs and bootstrap files can be

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 20:23, Dan Trainor wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 11:02, James Harper wrote: Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning etc, is there any reason that a generic 'bare metal' restore CD could not be made? It

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread James Harper
Well, interestingly enough, I am just today working on the Bacula rescue CDROM, and I have just about given up the idea of making a generic rescue CDROM for a number of reasons that I'll describe below. First, here is what I consider the Bacula CDROM to be: 1. A snapshot of your hard

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-26 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 09:02:12PM +1100, James Harper wrote: Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioning etc, is there any reason that a generic 'bare metal' restore CD could not be made? It looks like the catalogs and bootstrap files can be Ignoring the case of