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* It was Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:52:31AM -0400 when Charles Marcus said: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Something that I have always wished for, whether on a Windows system or |
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> Linux distro, is the native ability to *easily* (think 'brain-dead |
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> simple') make an emergency bootable Recovery CD/DVD. |
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> Create an ebuild - call it 'SysRecover' or whatever - that simply allows |
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> one to create an emergency, bootable CD/DVD of their system. It should |
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> be flexible enough to allow selection of any or all partitions. |
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> Yhink of it... someone spend hours, days, or even weeks getting their |
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> system(s) just the way they want it(them). This would enable them to |
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> make a bootable snapshot any time they wanted to a CD/DVD, ultimately |
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> doing so once they have it just the way they want it. Then they could |
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> simply make updates whenever they make major changes, as well as make a |
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> recovery CD before they do anything major to a production system. |
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I'm not familiar with catalyst, but maybe that tool already does part of |
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your idea. It is what the Gentoo devs use to create LiveCDs. Maybe it |
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could be extended to have an option that builds a CD from the current |
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running system. I have no idea if that idea is feasible or not. |
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