From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:40:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134704432.312.12.camel@neuromancer.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051215191550.42ad893b@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup
> directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing
> to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a
> completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable.
how can one create bootable CDs/DVDs? Is there a simple way to transfer
GRUB into the DVD/CDs? Or would "dd" of the /boot partition transfer the
whole thing??
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-16 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-15 13:03 [gentoo-user] Backups Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-15 15:45 ` [gentoo-user] Backups James
2005-12-15 16:33 ` reader
2005-12-15 16:53 ` [gentoo-user] Backups Richard Fish
2005-12-15 17:27 ` John J. Foster
2005-12-15 19:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-15 20:04 ` Richard Fish
2005-12-15 20:26 ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-16 13:13 ` Paweł Madej
2005-12-16 15:20 ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-16 16:58 ` [gentoo-user] Backups reader
2005-12-15 21:49 ` [gentoo-user] Backups Neil Bothwick
2005-12-16 3:40 ` Ow Mun Heng [this message]
2005-12-16 6:02 ` [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] " Richard Fish
2005-12-16 6:06 ` Richard Fish
2005-12-16 6:11 ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-12-16 7:57 ` Uwe Thiem
2005-12-16 9:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-22 14:26 ` Michael Kintzios
2005-12-22 19:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-22 21:45 ` [gentoo-user] Backups reader
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