[plug] Partimage boot disk or cd

[Chris Caston]

Yeah,

It works well and totally rocks.

Be careful if following those instructions. If you are copying binaries
they go into the cloop (which seems to be the running live-cd system)
detailed in Step-03. If you are only copying in data files (such as I
was with the parted image) you skip Step-03 and see that most important
part is Step-05. 

Now all the other stuff I was trying to do looks totally stupid.

The whole endeavour was part of making myself more efficient as a
call-out computer tech. I'm getting organised for every possible
situation so I can fix most problems on the spot but with necessarily
devouring mass amounts of technical information. Mainly using the power
of different live cd's and bringing a small yet primed Linux box with me
on every call out.

Thanks for everyone that has helped me along the way and I hope these
findings will be of some use to other PLUG members in the future. I
regret making so many posts in the process but all it's well that ends
well.

regards,

Chris Caston   
 
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:53, Chris Caston wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> There's a section in the manual
> (http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/systemrescuecd/systemrescuecd-manual-20031014.pdf)
> 
> about making a customised systemrescue CD. You actually do it while your
> booted into the CD.
> 
> I'm going to print of the relevant pages and try it out.
> 
> I did look at the manual before but I'm surprised I didn't see it.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:38, Chris Caston wrote:
> > I did change an option from DOS something to Win32/Unix but the same
> > thing happened with the CD after booting/burning.
> > 
> > I'm probably going about this the wrong way I should really post a
> > message to that forum about now.
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:03, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:39, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > > Okay,
> > > > 
> > > > Ultraiso seems to do what I want and DOES run under WINE.
> > > > 
> > > > I have just created the iso and now will try burning and booting it.
> > > > 
> > > > regards,
> > > > 
> > > > Chris
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > The boot booted fine but when I tried I noted there was a error message
> > > during boot saying something along the lines of:
> > > 
> > > DOS- partition - Not a dynamic disk
> > > 
> > > Trying to restore the image in partimage gave me an error saying there
> > > was an invalid level of compression.
> > > 
> > > The same image form my EXT3 drive worked fine.
> > > Perhaps I will see if there are some more options under ultraISO.
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 23:10, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > > > > Chris Caston wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 18:00, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >>Chris Caston wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>>Perhaps I really should bite the bullet and just use isobuster on my
> > > > > >>>dad's W2k laptop then come back and learn how to make the an bootable
> > > > > >>>iso with mkisofs when my Linux skills a more mature.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>Just tested it, isobuster works well under wine..
> > > > > >>Go forth and use it :p)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I have an early appointment tomorrow so won't be trying it until later
> > > > > > in the day.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > BTW did you point to a Windows install when you ran it?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Nup.. but I do have a number of windows dll's on the system..
> > > > > It looks like it needs ole at least.
> > > > > I have a minimal install required to get word 97 to run..
> > > > > 
> > > > > Brad
> > > > > 
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