[syslinux] recovery system

[Julian Picht]

Thanks for your answer.
But in the way you suggested is one thing, that makes it impossible to use
for us. We dont have a cdrom drive in every computer. Most of out old ones
don't have one.
Would it be possible to use pxelinux?

greetings
    Julian Picht

> What you are suggesting is certainly possible using syslinux.
>
> I have a CD that does most of what you need, although not for the same
> reason.
>
> You can certainly include support for multiple network cards in your
> kernel.  This is a bit difficult to do on a floppy, but of course on a
> CD you have no space problem, so all you need to do is to enable the
> desired NICs and build the kernel.
>
> By the way, you want to use the "isolinux" part of syslinux, and you do
> NOT want to use floppy emulation.
>
> What you need to do is basically this (1) create the kernel, (2) create
> a root file system that has all the programs on it that you will need,
> (3) write an "init" program that does the format, restore, etc.  "init"
> is the program that the kernel runs when booted.  You can override this
> with a boot command line, but it is easier to simply name your program
> "init".
>
> Then you create a directory structure that looks exactly the way you
> want the CD to look, use mkisofs to create an image file from the file
> system, and use cdrecord to make the cd.
>
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 14:59, Julian Picht wrote:
> > First: My English is not that good, I hope you can understand what I
mean.
> > We plan to build a recovery system for the computer in our school. We
want
> > to put an [computername].tar.bz2 for every computer onto our server.
When
> > the computer does not work we want to use a Linux bootdisk to boot the
> > computer, mount the drive, erase what is there and extract the .tar.bz2
onto
> > the disk. This is where we want to use syslinux. Is it possible to do
that
> > using syslinux?
> > Do you know an easier way building such a disk than using syslinux?
> > Is there a way building a disk that will be able to use more than one
type
> > network adaptors (e.g. 8139too, via-rhine and ne2k-pci) without
recompiling
> > everything from the scatch?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >     Julian Picht
> >
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