How make a bootable image of my Linux box

[donne007]

Hello
I Woould like to know how to make a bootable image of my Linux box. Similar to ignite-ux in Hpux or mksysb in AIX.
I know od DD/Sometar .. but is ther any rpm's from RHAS 2.1

Thx in ADv

[Slawomir Gora]

HI,

look at:

http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/docs/docs.html

[donne007]

Thx Gora,
But This implies only for a CDR/W . But is ther some thing for TAPE drives as well

Cheers
Asif

[Matti_Kurkela]

How would you boot from a tape image?

Linux usually lives on PC-style hardware. I think there might be some kinds of PC hardware that can boot from a tape, but personally I've never seen one. That would probably be a special hardware/firmware solution: rare and expensive.

This is not an OS limitation: it's more of a BIOS/SCSI firmware limitation.

[donne007]

Well In that case can some one help me to create a image FTP to PC and Burn it ( as i dont have CDRW on my Linux box.. )


Thx

[Bojan Nemec]

Hi,

Take a look to Mondo Rescue:

http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/

Bojan

[Huc_1]

Asifayaz, The previous entry and links to Mondo /mindi has a documentation in which the process of how to create a Mondo/mindi boot floppy.

once you have this floppy you can make your system back up to tape !

on restore time you should then be able to boot from mondo floopy and from there access tape and restore

You will have to read the documentation to configure correctly, but this is well worth the time, and it is describe there better then I could hope to do it

P.S You can also do this using nfs and tar.

Hope this get you going.

J-P

[peter demus]

Hello !

You should use TapeWare for Linux which is included with HP DAT DLt Tapes

So You create a full backup tape. to restore the server You simply press the eject knob while switching on the server. then the server is booting from the tape like from CDROM.

then your linux with all needed modules for hardware support is loaded from tape and the restore process can start.

as easy as it is!

you could also create floppy or CD-Image created by tapeWare to boot server if You doesn't have OBDR tape from HP

Microlite BackupEDGE should also work without hassle.

ciao peter

[donne007]

Thank you all