Building rescue/recovery cds

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Matthew Crowe wrote:

> I wanted to make a Freebsd-based cd that would enable restoring of a FAT32 or 
> NTFS filesystem.  I know Windows includes things to do this, but I wanted to 
> use unix and build some nifty scripts to do it all automatically (this is 
> designed to restore systems for really computer stupid people).  I've already 
> made the programs to restore the images.. but.. I can't ever seem to get a 
> working fbsd boot cd.   I found one system called RIP, but it was mainly for 
> Linux (and I really wanted it to be fbsd, as I know it a lot better!).  Is 
> there an easy way to make a bootable freebsd recovery disk?  I tried hacking 
> the 5.2.1- bootonly disk, but I couldn't ever figure out how to get it 
> re-burned and allow for booting.

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-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA