Boot CD for Rescue and Backup
1. The SLES8 Admin Manual, Part II System, Chp 5 talk about creating Boot CD with ISOLINUX. 2. The SuSE9 User Guide sect 3.8.3 talk about Creating Boot, Rescue and Module (floppy) disks with Yast. I just don't have working floppy device, but CD and DVD burner device instead. Therefore and general I wonder: Is it possible to combine 1 and 2 above; that is creating a Boot CD or DVD as a combined Rescue, repair, module and system backup disk? If possible, the best would be using a CD+RW or DVD+RW for updating changes. Possible how to create this CD/DVD, if possible easy with YaST and/or next command lines? What should it typical include/need to mirror a installed and customized system, including system tools? TIA/Terje
Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
1. The SLES8 Admin Manual, Part II System, Chp 5 talk about creating Boot CD with ISOLINUX.
2. The SuSE9 User Guide sect 3.8.3 talk about Creating Boot, Rescue and Module (floppy) disks with Yast.
I just don't have working floppy device, but CD and DVD burner device instead. Therefore and general I wonder:
Is it possible to combine 1 and 2 above; that is creating a Boot CD or DVD as a combined Rescue, repair, module and system backup disk? If possible, the best would be using a CD+RW or DVD+RW for updating changes.
Possible how to create this CD/DVD, if possible easy with YaST and/or next command lines?
What should it typical include/need to mirror a installed and customized system, including system tools?
TIA/Terje
I just did this after looking at your e-mail as I'd also wanted to do this. I used the guidance provided at URL: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/fhassel_bootcd.html and SuSE booted up just fine. I got a copy of isolinux from the SuSE CD/DVD which is required by the process and created the CD with the iso created from this process using K3b. My isolinux.cfg file contained the following, some parameters were obtained from Grub parameters. default linux label linux kernel linux append initrd=initrd root=/dev/hdb2 hdc=ide-scsi vga=0x31a splash=silent desktop hdclun=0 showopts Hope you have success. The guidance seemed reasonably straight forward. Nev
Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
1. The SLES8 Admin Manual, Part II System, Chp 5 talk about creating Boot CD with ISOLINUX.
2. The SuSE9 User Guide sect 3.8.3 talk about Creating Boot, Rescue and Module (floppy) disks with Yast.
I just don't have working floppy device, but CD and DVD burner device instead. Therefore and general I wonder:
Is it possible to combine 1 and 2 above; that is creating a Boot CD or DVD as a combined Rescue, repair, module and system backup disk? If possible, the best would be using a CD+RW or DVD+RW for updating changes.
Possible how to create this CD/DVD, if possible easy with YaST and/or next command lines?
What should it typical include/need to mirror a installed and customized system, including system tools?
TIA/Terje ==========================================
So much for the 'send later' on thunderbird as it sent it straight away, so I'll repeat some of my previous e-mail. Thanks for putting me straight regarding your query, but I'm glad as I fixed up one of my long-term problems and that was making a bootable CD rather than a floppy. I would also like to comment that I have in the past used the system rescue CD from http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php. It seems to work fine and I've even used the qtparted provided on the disk but my problems have mainly been configuration problems which which were easily fixed. The sponsor of this CD appears to continually update the CD and provides beta versions as well. I tried the rescue CD you mentioned but could not get USB keyboard or mouse access when it booted but all seems to work on the rescue CD I mentioned above. Nev
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