From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 23:59:55 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 1EE5116A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:59:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931F143D46 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:59:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i7NNxr5s003447; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:59:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id i7NNxrsb003444; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:59:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:59:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Matthew Crowe In-Reply-To: <4129DBF9.6030802@virtualflu.com> Message-ID: <20040823175935.V3377@wonkity.com> References: <4129DBF9.6030802@virtualflu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:59:53 -0600 (MDT) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 23:59:55 -0000 On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Matthew Crowe wrote: > 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. http://www.freesbie.org -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA