Re: bootable readonly media in your pocket

[Kevin Martin <brasscannon () BIGFOOT COM>]

At 10:17 AM 1/9/01 -0600, marc wrote:
> I'm thinking of putting the linuxcare image on a hard drive and adding
> some of the tools from trinux, to make it a better network security tool,
> then iso and burn.

Two caveats and two other resources:

1) The Linuxcare image pretty much fills up the credit-card CDR, and don't
forget that it's compressed.  You'll need to take something out to shoehorn
anything else in.  I found it much more practical to get 3-inch CDR's from
the same people; these hold 150MB instead of a mere 50MB.

2) Don't be fooled by the BBC's shape -- it is NOT rugged enough to carry
in a wallet.  Also the plastic envelopes that come with them have ripped
the silvering right off some of mine.  The paper label is not optional. :-(

To roll your own you might also want to look into these:

- Kent Robotti's RIP (Recovery Is Possible), at
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip - it supports
reiserfs, which may be a big plus if you have to recover a SuSE system;

- Timo's Rescue CD, at http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net - a new project, at
this point it's as much documentation as it is code.

Hope that helps!