From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 7:27:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F46237B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 07:27:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 67474 invoked by uid 100); 4 May 2001 14:27:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15090.48236.429844.168109@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:27:56 -0500 To: Rick Duvall Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AW: Bootable CD IV In-Reply-To: <55443314@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Duvall 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. 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