[dundee] Automatix & Ubunt

[William Cameron]

The theory sounds sound enough, but I believe there are issues with how a system interprets USB Keys/HDD during boot.  Additionally, I remember having issues while booting Gentoo from USB as a "recovery pen" with it accessing the pen during boot, it at points couldn't read from it fast enough.  It did eventually boot however, but it stopped what appeard to be randomly stating it couldn't read 'root'.I think that's what's you're meaning?  Image your system to USB, dist-upgrade etc, reboot to USB, if [goes tits up] modify grub.lst to boot HDD again?BillDate: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:16:27 +0100From: toxicnaan at yahoo.co.ukSubject: Re: [dundee] Automatix & UbuntTo: dundee at mailman.lug.org.ukCC: well, bugger me...but question is can you use LVM for root volumes /would be an interesting howto for ubuntu, I just though of another way.connect use storage device (GB)boot a knoppix type distrodd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/usbkey/mybackupreboot into ubuntuapt-get updateapt-get dist-upgradereboot..does it work? yeah!! keep it..total failureboot knoppixdd if=/mnt/usbkey/mybackup of=/dev/hdacomments!Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote: On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:21:59 +0100, Digit (SG) wrote:> "it a shame you can't check point the file system, and the roll it> all back if it goes tits up."> > u can cant
 you?http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html_______________________________________________dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing listdundee at lists.lug.org.uk  http://dundee.lug.org.ukhttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundeeChat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk 
       
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