Hi, I've seen some minimal systems that were using Suse Rescue as Suse minimal installation system + ssh and few apps. They were really small (aqround 30Megs). Can I use Suse rescue on disk as separate bootable partition ? How to transfer Rescue image to harddisc and use it from there ? Thanks in advance, regards, Rob.
On Friday 11 March 2005 14:16, Robert Rozman wrote:
Hi,
I've seen some minimal systems that were using Suse Rescue as Suse minimal installation system + ssh and few apps. They were really small (aqround 30Megs).
Can I use Suse rescue on disk as separate bootable partition ?
Yes, that is possible.
How to transfer Rescue image to harddisc and use it from there ?
The next recipe is unverified, but the simplest is probably: 1. Boot into the rescue system 2. mount /dev/hd?? /mnt for the hd?? use your destination partition 3. find / -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | grep -v '^/mnt$' | xargs cp -a {} /mnt of course you could copy every directory in / by hand, without the /mnt directory 4. umount /mnt 5. Reboot into your regular Linux installation 6. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the "Rescue" partition to it. You can also use YaST for this. 7. Try booting into the rescue partition. Cheers, Leen
Hi, thanks for info. I like SuSE very much, so would like get this working... Please see below... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leendert Meyer" <leen.meyer@home.nl> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Using Suse rescue as minimal system on disc ?
On Friday 11 March 2005 14:16, Robert Rozman wrote:
Hi,
I've seen some minimal systems that were using Suse Rescue as Suse minimal installation system + ssh and few apps. They were really small (aqround 30Megs).
Can I use Suse rescue on disk as separate bootable partition ?
Yes, that is possible.
How to transfer Rescue image to harddisc and use it from there ?
The next recipe is unverified, but the simplest is probably:
1. Boot into the rescue system
2. mount /dev/hd?? /mnt for the hd?? use your destination partition
3. find / -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | grep -v '^/mnt$' | xargs cp -a {} /mnt
of course you could copy every directory in / by hand, without the /mnt directory
4. umount /mnt
5. Reboot into your regular Linux installation
6. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the "Rescue" partition to it. You can also use YaST for this.
Did that. Added : title Linux on rescue1 - hda6 chainloader (hd0,5)+1 But I still suspect that kernel should be added manually . "boot" directory is empty... How to do that? I have rescue partition mounted from normal SuSE installation... Can I simply just rpm -i to another location ? Or install to this and then copy ?
7. Try booting into the rescue partition.
I get: Error 13: Invalid or unsporrted format. But I hope that will change sometime... I'd kindly ask for further help here.... Thanks in advance, Regards, Rob.
Cheers,
Leen
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