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From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:48:27
Message-Id: 1134704432.312.12.camel@neuromancer.home.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups by Neil Bothwick
1 On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
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3 > the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup
4 > directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing
5 > to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a
6 > completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable.
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8 how can one create bootable CDs/DVDs? Is there a simple way to transfer
9 GRUB into the DVD/CDs? Or would "dd" of the /boot partition transfer the
10 whole thing??
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Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>