Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:03:02 +0200 From: Erik Johnsson <erik@erikjohnsson.net> To: Matthew Crowe <flint@virtualflu.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building rescue/recovery cds Message-ID: <20040823120302.GA81428@erikjohnsson.net> In-Reply-To: <4129DBF9.6030802@virtualflu.com> References: <4129DBF9.6030802@virtualflu.com>
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:58:49AM -0400, Matthew Crowe wrote: > 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! =) > did you check out livecd.sf.net ?
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