Recently I purchased Northon Ghost 2001, since it claims to allow me to easily create and restore system images on CD-R. Unfortunately, it doesn't, so I started to wonder whether a Ghost-like solution would be possible using cdrecord. Assuming your CD-Writer is on the subject system, creating the images on CD-R would involve: - a standalone boot, to make sure the file system is not used. It's easy to create a Linux boot floppy for this purpose. - a tool that runs from the boot disk (or RAM disk) that takes the files from the file system, compresses them, and writes out the CD image(s) _on the fly_. Note that multiple CDs may be required. The first (or only) CD can be made bootable with the Linux boot floppy. To recover: - a standalone boot, see above. - a tool to format the disk (put fdisk on the floppy). - a restore tool, that fetches the files from the CD(s) and restores them to the disk. - a way to restore the boot information. For real power, it must be possible to access the CD (at least, for writing) through a network link, since not all PC's have CD-writers attached. Any ideas? -- Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
