Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:27:56 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AW: Bootable CD IV Message-ID: <15090.48236.429844.168109@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <55443314@toto.iv>
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Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> types: > Yeah, i agree with Axexander! Why can't we all get together and make like > a picoBSD-release that specifically does disaster recovery, then provide > an ISO on and FTP server somewhere for all to download. I would hate to > see all my research go to waste! Especially the research of all who are > helping me with this! > > I just need it to boot and ask for the last tape, and ask how you want to > restore (interactive, or all).... Other people might want the option of > using amanda disaster recovery from a tape and hold the curinfo on a > floppy or something (or maybe at the beginning of the tape?). Others may > want to use flexbackup. The possibilities are endless! I think you just pegged why it isn't done - the possibilities are endless. Which means the space required to handle them all automatically is, um, rather large. If you're willing to require the users to know a little bit about what's going on, then the second CD in the release set is close to what you want. Rather than providing a single ISO image, a tool for building a recover CD would be more generally useful. The hard part - as you've found - is building the bootable CD. Scripting the recovery process once you've booted the system should be straightforward, but needs to be tailored to each individual installation. A tool that makes it easy to build a bootable disk that starts the custom recovery script would be more generally useful than a disk that tried to handle every possible case. If you really want to do that, you can provide scripts for those cases - or even a single large script that you've put on an ISO image. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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