[Gllug] Bootable USB backup like OS X dmg?

[James Hawtin]

Personally I keep my bootable rescue partitions on the network and just 
PXE boot the machine.

#default.cfg
default menu.c32
#prompt 0

#timeout 300

MENU TITLE PXE Menu

LABEL memtest86+
MENU LABEL memtest86+ 2.11
KERNEL images/memtest86+_211

LABEL CentoS 5.5 x86_64
MENU LABEL CentOS 5.5 x86_64 INSTALL
KERNEL images/centos/5.5/x86_64/vmlinuz
append initrd=images/centos/5.5/x86_64/initrd.img 
ks=http://192.168.70.2:81/ks/install-ks.cfg

LABEL CentoS 5.5 x86_64
MENU LABEL CentOS 5.5 x86_64 Rescue
KERNEL images/centos/5.5/x86_64/vmlinuz
append initrd=images/centos/5.5/x86_64/initrd.img rescue 
ks=http://192.168.70.2:81/ks/rescue-ks.cfg


more rescue-ks.cfg
# Rescue Kickstart file

url --url http://192.168.70.208:81/centos/5.5/os/x86_64
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard uk
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp

# Check the options before install
interactive

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