From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 11:59:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C17E16A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:59:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web.lomag.net (web.lomag.net [208.185.81.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA01743D39 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:59:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flint@virtualflu.com) Received: (qmail 5164 invoked by uid 98); 23 Aug 2004 11:59:00 -0000 Received: from flint@virtualflu.com by web.lomag.net by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20st (clamuko: 0.67. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(151.197.110.40):. Processed in 0.028118 secs); 23 Aug 2004 11:59:00 -0000 Received: from pool-151-197-110-40.phil.east.verizon.net (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (151.197.110.40) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2004 11:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4129DBF9.6030802@virtualflu.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:58:49 -0400 From: Matthew Crowe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Building rescue/recovery cds X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:59:02 -0000 Hi all, This may not exactly be a Freebsd related question.. but.. here goes =) I wanted to make a Freebsd-based cd that would enable restoring of a FAT32 or NTFS filesystem. I know Windows includes things to do this, but I wanted to use unix and build some nifty scripts to do it all automatically (this is designed to restore systems for really computer stupid people). I've already made the programs to restore the images.. but.. I can't ever seem to get a working fbsd boot cd. I found one system called RIP, but it was mainly for Linux (and I really wanted it to be fbsd, as I know it a lot better!). Is there an easy way to make a bootable freebsd recovery disk? I tried hacking the 5.2.1- bootonly disk, but I couldn't ever figure out how to get it re-burned and allow for booting. If anyone has any experence in doing something like this, let me know! =) Thank you