I haven't seen very much stuff about this on the net, but the debian
package 'bootcd'
works really really well.
I created a 650M partition on my HD with X Windows (using Blackbox) and
some tools like
xfm, nano,... and was able to put it on a CD and actually boot to it and
use it.
I have been playing around for awhile to create my own version of a
rescue CD with X support
and this is the first attempt that actually worked.
Not sure on some things yet. Like first boot just got to console, and
saw a compaint about not
being able to find the floppy, so just stuck a floopy in and next boot X
came up just like normal when
I boot the same system I made on the HD partition. It is a little slower
using the CDROM though.
Will have to play with some stuff like fstab to make it always see my
other partitions after booting
off CD so I can actually rescue them. Note, could probably just edit it
in ram each time, but haven't
tried that yet. From reading the notes, I think this is where the floppy
actually take account for changes.
Just wanted to get it out there that this package actually works great
on something that I have had no
luck at before.
Dave
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