May 30, 2004

BG-Rescue Linux

This is a very small Linux distribution that fits on either two floppy disks or one eltorito-boot cd.
Contents
The system is a BusyBox 1.0pre5 and uClibc 0.9.24 based rescue system with kernel 2.4.24.
The system uses DevFS with DevFSD for /dev and tmpfs for /tmp.
The user can choose between 30 different keyboard layouts.

This distrubution is introducted in this page.

2 意見:

Jaki said...

For the windows installation, you should use rawrite, or you can try the dd for windows.

RawWrite for windows version 0.7
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htmdd for windows version 0.2
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm

Jaki said...

Today I met the same problem, so I'll try it.

The introduction page is
"How Linux Saved My Files and My Job"
By Rory Winston on Mon, 2004-05-24 23:00.

Link the page here
"Next time your NTFS-based drive decides to take a sudden trip down south, give BG-Rescue Linux a try."

"First of all, I checked to see if it had picked up the network card. A quick scan of the output of dmesg confirmed that it had found something, all right, and assigned it a driver. I set the IP address and netmask using ifconfig (ifconfig eth0 xx.xx.xx.xx. netmask yy.yy.yy.yy), and then attempted to ping another machine on the same network. It worked. A quick moment of elation ensued, and then it was on to the hard work--accessing and backing up the filesystem. Truth be told, it wasn't that hard at all. In fact, it was downright simple. My next step was to create the directory /mnt/win2k and mount my NTFS partition under that by running mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k. Two seconds later, I had access to the entire NTFS directory tree. Things were finally starting to look positive.

The next step was to perform the actual file backups. I had a couple of options; BG-Rescue Linux comes with SMB and NFS support and also has cmdftp built in. Deciding to go for the quick-and-easy SMB share route, I hopped over to our new Dell server (running Red Hat 9) and set up a Samba share called, appropriately enough, disaster. Going back to the laptop, I accessed the share with smbclient, like so:

smbclient //xx.xx.xx.xx/disaster [password]

where xx.xx.xx.xx was the Red Hat server's IP address. This dropped me into an FTP-like environment; it even had a similar command set (prompt, mget, mput). I was able to back up all of the necessary files and directory trees quickly and easily by turning on smbclient's recurse option to copy entire directory trees with one command. In fact, it would have been even easier if the smbfs filesystem was supported and smbmount was included in the command set for the distro--a suggestion for the next release of BG Rescue, perhaps?"