[juneau-lug] building a rescue image

  • From: Nels Tomlinson <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:16:43 -0900

Hi, James,

I said that I'd look up diagnostic programs for a rescue CD, and I 
tried, but haven't found much.  Here's what I have found:

http://www.memtest86.com/
http://kandalaya.org/software.shtml  (this one is a pearl script which 
gives hinv for linux)

http://htmsysinfo.sourceforge.net/
http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/
http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/repository.html (miscellaneous 
diagnostics)

It looks as if the two major bootable business card images (linuxcare 
and hinv) don't have exactly what we need.  For example, neither of them 
have either memtest86 or hinv.

I've played just a bit with mindi and it will make an 11MB bootable 
image on my Woody box, but of course, that's a completely bare skeleton. 
  I haven't yet tried to figure out what we can hang on that skeleton in 
50MB total.

I'll bang about a little more on the web, and also try to investigate 
some of the automagic tools like mindi a bit further.  One thing I'm 
curious about is how much we can trim Knoppix and still keep the amazing 
hardware detection.  I suspect that we can't get 700MB down to less than 50.

Nels



James Zuelow wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Nels Tomlinson wrote:
>
>
> >We could probably modify one of the little 50MB ISOs to have our
> >information on it, and maybe some sort of useful specialization or
> >localization.  It might be useful, and I don't think it would be a huge
> >project.  I wonder if we could make some pretty lables for the little
> >disks, and whether we would need or want to?
> >
> >Nels
> >
>
>
> Building our own rescue image (from scratch) wouldn't be too much of a
> project either.  We'd need a relatively plain kernel, lots of modules
> available, and some basic tools.  We could make a "state surplus special"
> CD just to test machines down at state surplus - I'm thinking tools like
> badblocks to test the hard drive, a memory tester, etc.  Of course, these
> tools would be useful for a regular rescue CD as well...  :)
>
> Might be interesting for those of you who've not compiled a kernel before,
> or built an initrd image.
>
>
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