Perhaps you you do something with the Linux Bootable Business
Card image (www.lnx-bbc.org) using CDR media
One for lnx-bbc, one for your system (less than 650MB).


Create a dd image of your system
Burn it to CD-ROM
Boot with Linux BBC CDROM
restore dd image on CDR to disk

-Andy


Benjamin Scott wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, at 11:54am, Ben Boulanger wrote:
> > Anyone have any experience with making an image of your disk, dropping it
> > to a CD and making that CD bootable?  My ultimate goal is:
> >
> >       Take the current image I have of a linux box
> >       Burn it to a CD, making the CD bootable
> 
>   That is going to be hard.  The system expects to be able to write to
> various parts of the filesystem (swap files, config files, lock files,
> etc.).  That will not work well on a CD.  The bootable CDs you get from
> other people do things like mount a ramdisk as root, and then mount the rest
> of the CD on /usr or some such.
> 
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