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| 5 | <!-- $MVD$:app("MicroVision WebExpress","769") -->
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| 11 | <title>Making a Test CD</title>
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| 12 | </articleinfo>
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| 14 | <para></para>
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| 15 | <informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody>
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| 17 | <entry>
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| 18 | Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux HOWTO
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| 23 | <ulink url="testingmindi.html">Prev</ulink>
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| 25 | <entry>
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| 26 | Chapter 6. Testing Mindi
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| 29 | <ulink url="writingminditestcd.html">Next</ulink>
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| 34 | <sect1 id="MAKEMINDITESTC"><title>6.1. Making a Test CD</title>
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| 35 | <para>Mindi is a vital part of the backup procedure. If you have
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| 36 | used Mondo before or if you are in a hurry, skip steps 6.2 and 6.3;
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| 37 | go straight to QuickStart.</para>
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| 38 | <para>However, if you have time or if you have been having trouble
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| 39 | getting Mondo to work, I would recommend trying out Mindi directly
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| 40 | (rather than via Mondo) to see if it can produce a bootable CD on
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| 41 | your system.</para>
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| 42 | <para>Make sure you are root while doing this, otherwise mindi will
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| 43 | fail, now do this.</para>
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| 44 | <para>If you have any problems, please:-</para>
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| 45 | <itemizedlist>
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| 47 | <para>read /var/log/mindi.log</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>feel free to edit mindi (it's a shell script, btw) to try
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| 50 | to fix the problem yourself</listitem>
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| 51 | <listitem>contact the mailing list if you get stuck.</listitem>
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| 52 | </itemizedlist>
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| 53 | <para>Type:-</para>
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| 59 | bash# mindi
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| 63 | </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
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| 65 | <para>Example screen output, selecting to use your own kernel, to
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| 66 | create boot disks, and to create a bootable CD image:</para>
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| 67 | <para></para>
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| 72 | Mindi Linux mini-distro generator v0.72 by HRabson <hugorabson@msn.com>------------------------------------------------------------------------------Do you want to use your own kernel to build the boot disk (y/n) ? yYour kernel is /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.14-k6 (v2.4.14-k6)Generating list of dependency files........................ Done.Analyzing your keyboard's configuration.Adding the following keyboard mapping tables:................... DoneDropping i686-optimized libraries if appropriate.............DoneAssembling dependency files........ Done.The files have been subdivided into 2 directories.Your mountlist will look like this:-DEVICE MOUNTPOINT FORMAT SIZE (MB)/dev/hda3 / ext2 996/dev/hda2 swap swap 127/dev/hda4 /usr ext2 6189Tarring and zipping the groups......... Done.Creating data disk #1...#2... Done.1722KB boot disk was created OK............................ Done.2880KB boot disk was created OK............................ Done.In the directory '/root/images/mindi' you will find the images:-mindi-boot.1722.img mindi-boot.2880.img mindi-data-1.img mindi-data-2.imgWould you like to create boot+data floppy disks now (y/n) ?yWARNING! THIS WILL ERASE YOUR FLOPPY DISKS.About to write boot disk. Please press ENTER.Writing boot disk.................................................. Done.About to write data disk #1. Please press ENTER.Writing data disk #1........................... Done.About to write data disk #2. Please press ENTER.Writing data disk #2........................... Done.Shall I make a bootable CD image? (y/n) yFinished.One 1.72MB boot disk, one 2.88MB boot disk and 2 data disks were created.
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| 78 | <para>If your kernel is too large (more than about 900KB) then you
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| 79 | cannot make boot floppies, although you can still make a bootable
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| 80 | CD image. The easiest way to test Mindi in either case is to say
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| 81 | 'n' to its first question and 'y' to its second, then use the
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| 82 | separate application cdrecord to make a bootable CD-R or
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| 83 | CD-RW.</para>
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