rescue cd creation

Brian Porter brian at miatar.org
Wed Apr 11 12:36:36 UTC 2007


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Kam Leo wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Dan McCullough wrote:
>> > I have an issue that I might need a rescue cd, is there a way to
>> > create one from my current setup so that if I goof I can get back into
>> > the system from a boot cd and revert back to teh old config?
>> >
>>
>> Hmm, on a related note...
>>
>> Rather than create a general-purpose rescue CDROM, how about a
>> means to create an auto-restore CDROM set? Boot from the first
>> CDROM, answer a few nag questions to make sure we really Really
>> REALLY want to wipe the system, and then make it look like it
>> did the day the rescue set was created?
> 
> You're looking for the equivalent of Norton Ghost.
> 
>> Mike
> 

g4u (Ghost 4 Unix) works well. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

I haven't checked to see if it'll restore to drives with different
geometry yet.

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- -Brian
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