On Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:15:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > As most of you know, the Rescue CDROM is pretty much dead. My original > > idea was to build it from the kernel and data on your system, but in the > > end, this was just too much work, because every distro does booting > > different, and even within a single distro the boot procedures change > > over time. However, I have now started remastering the Kubuntu livecd > > onto a USB key, and it looks really promising. It has the advantage that > > it uses a single OS that already works, knows how to detect most > > hardware, and can be relatively easily remastered (add/remove packages, > > apply updates, or upgrade, ...). In addition, the USB key is written so > > that changes to the OS and your home directory are rewritten dynamically > > to the key -- giving it a persistence. > > The one downside I see to this is that there's still surprisingly many > machines out there that WILL NOT, NOHOW, NO WAY, PERIOD, boot from a USB > device. *ANY* USB device.
Yes, true, but I think there are alternatives, but I haven't had time to test it. First boot with a small CD that has an OS that enables USB devices, then boot from them. I cannot see why this would work, but according to some documentation I have seen, it does. I haven't tried it though. The same considerations apply to Windows. The other solution is to use something like knoppix, syscdrec or ReaR or your own distro recovery disk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
