Hello Sean,
Monday, February 26, 2001, 6:06:37 AM, you wrote:
SA> I was wondering whether it was possible or not to make a CD backup of my
SA> drive and then use that CD as a bootdisk? Like having a portable drive. All
SA> of the main things would be located on the cdrom and all of the unnecessary
SA> stuff would still be on the hard drive. I guess it would be basically all of
SA> the base fs would be located on the cdrom like tom's rtbt floppy. Except my
SA> whole system would be run of the cdrom. Any ideas? Just curious.
SA> Thanks in advance.
I know two distros that runs off from CD. One is "Finnix" and the
other, more sofisticated that even run X is "SuSe Live"
With "Finnix" you can learn how the manage to run from CD and try to
adapt it to your needs.
Basically they boot the CD with a kernel image and then create 4
ramdisks, where they mount the CD itself and the images of /home,
/etc, /var. In short, they boot the CD, put configuration files in
ramdisks and the rest is on the CD.
The problem is that every boot, you loose everything.
SuSe Live saves your changes to your hd, so it can "remember" your
config files if you run it from your computer.
SuSe Live, as it run X by default, it is extremly slow.I did't try to
change that, but may be possible.
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Best regards,
Gabriel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
