Our office just purchased a copy of RH 7.2 professional and it had one neat feature I would love to see SuSE adopt. The package came with one of these credit card CDs. This CD is bootable and contains a bunch of admin survival tools from FS recovery tools to networking tools and even a simple mailer. If SuSE does not plan to offer a similar CD, can we at least have a downloadable ISO image small enough to be burned into one of these micro CDs? And yes, I already took control over this CD and carry it in my wallet ;-) Avi -- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com "I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the control-alt-delete reboot sequence
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:59:05PM -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote:
Our office just purchased a copy of RH 7.2 professional and it had one neat feature I would love to see SuSE adopt. The package came with one of these credit card CDs. This CD is bootable and contains a bunch of admin survival tools from FS recovery tools to networking tools and even a simple mailer.
If SuSE does not plan to offer a similar CD, can we at least have a downloadable ISO image small enough to be burned into one of these micro CDs?
Please look at http://lbt.linuxcare.com/index.epl I think RH piggie-backed on Linuxcare idea.
And yes, I already took control over this CD and carry it in my wallet ;-)
And I am carrying Linuxcare Bootable Recovery Disc v1.6 ;-) -Kastus
* Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka (kastus@tsoft.com) [011205 15:06]:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:59:05PM -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote:
If SuSE does not plan to offer a similar CD, can we at least have a downloadable ISO image small enough to be burned into one of these micro CDs?
Why not just burn the rescue system image to a cd. -- -ckm
Avi Schwartz wrote:
If SuSE does not plan to offer a similar CD, can we at least have a downloadable ISO image small enough to be burned into one of these micro CDs?
The first thing that comes to my mind is using the Eval CD that SuSE provides, but it does not fit in a wallet. ;) It would be possible (theoretically) to duplicate this feat on smaller media if one could rip all of the KDE junk out of it, thereby reducing the fs size (from 1.2GB) considerably. Even with 3.5" media, though, this would still not fit in your wallet. ;) *IF* you could get the FS size down, and you have access to a local CD-ROM publisher that deals with specialty media, it's possible, if not practical. -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
* Jon Pennington
If SuSE does not plan to offer a similar CD, can we at least have a downloadable ISO image small enough to be burned into one of these micro CDs?
The first thing that comes to my mind is using the Eval CD that SuSE provides, but it does not fit in a wallet. ;) It would be possible (theoretically) to duplicate this feat on smaller media if one could rip all of the KDE junk out of it, thereby reducing the fs size (from 1.2GB) considerably. Even with 3.5" media, though, this would still not fit in your wallet. ;) *IF* you could get the FS size down, and you have access to a local CD-ROM publisher that deals with specialty media, it's possible, if not practical.
What's difficult in just using some system to install minimal changeroot in a loopback mounted partition, strip it small enough, and then burn that? -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
Avi Schwartz wrote:
And yes, I already took control over this CD and carry it in my wallet ;-)
RedHat has actually had one out for over a year now. It even had Ext3 support back in 2000. Most people didn't know about it though. -- TheBS -- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- "The [US] Constitution guarantees you Free, not Fair. 'Fair' is a socialist concept." -- Shawn McMahon
At 06/12/01 00:37 , Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
Avi Schwartz wrote:
And yes, I already took control over this CD and carry it in my wallet ;-)
RedHat has actually had one out for over a year now. It even had Ext3 support back in 2000. Most people didn't know about it though.
see http://www.linux-kheops.com/stonehenge/rescue-cd/ (whith babelfish). It's a version which support reiserfs. Fred -- Frederic Gautier Tel/Fax : +33 (0)3 20 61 29 68 Filigrane Press Nord Email : fredericg@filigrane-press.com http://www.filigrane-press.com --
That one looks good as well. I will try both this one and the LinuxCare
one and see which one I like better. I like the fact that StoneHenge has
reiserfs support.
Avi
--On Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:49:52 AM +0100 Frederic Gautier
At 06/12/01 00:37 , Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
Avi Schwartz wrote:
And yes, I already took control over this CD and carry it in my wallet ;-)
RedHat has actually had one out for over a year now. It even had Ext3 support back in 2000. Most people didn't know about it though.
see http://www.linux-kheops.com/stonehenge/rescue-cd/ (whith babelfish). It's a version which support reiserfs. -- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com
"I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the control-alt-delete reboot sequence
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 17:59 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote:
Our office just purchased a copy of RH 7.2 professional and it had one neat feature I would love to see SuSE adopt. The package came with one of these credit card CDs. This CD is bootable and contains a bunch of admin survival tools from FS recovery tools to networking tools and even a simple mailer.
If SuSE does not plan to offer a similar CD, can we at least have a downloadable ISO image small enough to be burned into one of these micro CDs?
And yes, I already took control over this CD and carry it in my wallet ;-)
Avi
Ever take a look at: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bblcd/ ? Build your own. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/05/01 20:44 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "When you live close to the graveyard, you can't weep for every funeral. -- Russian proverb"
Now I did ;-) Interesting, but I was looking for something that, at least
initially, will allow me to create such a CD without much work. I will
look at it again once I find I need to customize the CD. On the other hand
the LinuxCare LBT seems like what I was looking for.
Avi
--On Wednesday, December 05, 2001 08:44:51 PM -0500 Bruce Marshall
Ever take a look at: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bblcd/
?
Build your own.
-- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com "I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the control-alt-delete reboot sequence
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 22:08 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote:
Now I did ;-) Interesting, but I was looking for something that, at least initially, will allow me to create such a CD without much work. I will look at it again once I find I need to customize the CD. On the other hand the LinuxCare LBT seems like what I was looking for.
I tried it several times. Never could get it to boot my all-SCSI system. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/05/01 22:16 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "It's better to burn out than to fade away."
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Avi Schwartz -
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Christopher Mahmood -
Frederic Gautier -
Jon Pennington -
Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka -
Mads Martin Jørgensen