[LUAU] Recovery disc.

Mark Robinson sleeodoc at usa.net
Tue Jan 5 22:22:49 PST 1999


Michale does ghost work on directories, file systems,  partitions, or entire
disks?

best Mark Robinson

Michael & Diana Hasse wrote:

> I use a program called Ghost to make an image of the disk to another disk I
> have in the system.  I ghost the drives just before I make any changes to
> the system, then after I test the changes.  It works well, but requires a
> spare hard drive to do this.  Ghost fits on a bootable floppy so is easy to
> run.
> Michael Hasse
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-luau at luau.hi.net [mailto:owner-luau at luau.hi.net]On Behalf Of
> > David and Max
> > Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 9:31 PM
> > To: luau at luau.hi.net
> > Subject: [LUAU] Recovery disc.
> >
> >
> > Just wondering how to make a "Recovery Disc" for my linux box so that in
> > case when I need to format my box, I can just put the "Recovery disc" into
> > the CD drive and restore everything.  The idea is pretty much like the
> > Recovery disc that comes with the PCs we can buy nowadays.
> >
> > I'm thinking about creating an iso image file for the hard drive and then
> > burn it to a CD.  I know 'mkisofs' can do the job of creating the image
> > file.  But how can I make it bootable so that I can restore the image back
> > to a clean partition?  Any pointers on how to do that?  Anybody
> > tried to do
> > this before?
> >
> > -Max
> >
> >
> >




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