[plug] Partimage boot disk or cd

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:19, Chris Caston wrote:
> I have a created a partimage file of a fat32 partition. I wish to
> create a boot disk or CD that will allow me to restore this image to
> a clean harddrive.

> What is the best way to do this?

If you had been talking about a Linux distribution, I would say use 
Mindi on whatever you're running. Mandrake 9.1 and later come with 
their own live-CD making script.

> Getting partimage and the image (to restore) on the same bootable CD
> would rock if of course it is possible.

Trivial. Get a small Linux distro and write that into the "floppy" boot 
area of a CD, put the ISO image onto the CD as raw data (not a file), 
then have the boot script end with a "partimage -f 2 restore /dev/hda 
/dev/hdX" (you might have to parse dmesg to find out what X the CDROM 
is on if it isn't pre-determined, and you might want to do the same to 
make sure the boot drive is on hda if that ain't necessarily so).

Cheers; Leon

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