Hi.
How much work would be involved to create a rescue image that could be written to an USB flash drive (like the one in os/images/diskboot.img), so that a complete rescue system could be booted from the stick, without need for network access?
USB media are pretty cheap these days :)
Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Hi.
How much work would be involved to create a rescue image that could be written to an USB flash drive (like the one in os/images/diskboot.img), so that a complete rescue system could be booted from the stick, without need for network access?
No more than (perhaps) some rescue image preparation + using of "makebootfat" utility (from Extras) to create an universal image for different type of bootable USB flashes.
See some additional info at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/174186
Regards, Dmitry Butskoy
Dmitry Butskoy buc@odusz.so-cdu.ru wrote:
Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
How much work would be involved to create a rescue image that could be written to an USB flash drive (like the one in os/images/diskboot.img), so that a complete rescue system could be booted from the stick, without need for network access?
No more than (perhaps) some rescue image preparation + using of "makebootfat" utility (from Extras) to create an universal image for different type of bootable USB flashes.
Shouldn't this be a job for the LiveCD project at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD?
Hi.
Horst H. von Brand schrieb:
Shouldn't this be a job for the LiveCD project at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD?
I do not know how much there is to be done, the content is all there (as rescue.iso), it just has to be put into a different container by the buildsystem.
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 08:36 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Hi.
How much work would be involved to create a rescue image that could be written to an USB flash drive (like the one in os/images/diskboot.img), so that a complete rescue system could be booted from the stick, without need for network access?
USB media are pretty cheap these days :)
I just tried this. You can mount the rescue CD image, copy everything in the isolinux directory to the root of a FAT formatted flash drive, rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg and install syslinux. It'll boot up, but I wasn't able to figure out how to make it find the stage2.img on the flash drive. It'll ask you where the install CDs are, and selecting the flash drive does nothing.