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| 10 | <title>Mindi Linux</title>
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| 11 | </articleinfo>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para></para>
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| 14 | <informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody>
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| 15 | <row>
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| 16 | <entry>
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| 17 | Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux HOWTO
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| 18 | </entry>
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| 19 | </row>
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| 20 | <row>
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| 21 | <entry>
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| 22 | <ulink url="mondorescue.html">Prev</ulink>
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| 23 | </entry>
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| 24 | <entry>
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| 25 | Chapter 3. Overview
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| 26 | </entry>
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| 27 | <entry>
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| 28 | <ulink url="linuxbackup.html">Next</ulink>
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| 29 | </entry>
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| 30 | </row>
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| 31 | </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
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| 33 | <sect1 id="MINDILINU"><title>3.2. Mindi Linux</title>
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| 34 | <para>Mindi Linux creates a set of boot/root floppy disk images
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| 35 | that will let you perform basic system maintenance on your Linux
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| 36 | distro. The principal virtues of Mindi's boot disks are the fact
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| 37 | that they contain your kernel, modules, tools and libraries. You
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| 38 | can ask for additional binaries (or other files) to be included on
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| 39 | the kit. The libraries will be added for you.</para>
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| 40 | <para>Whichever modules were loaded at backup-time, they are
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| 41 | reloaded at boot-time. So, in theory, you will boot into almost the
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| 42 | same environment as you were in when you backed up. If you want to
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| 43 | add files to your Mindi boot disks, edit '<INSTALLPATH OF
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| 44 | MINDI>/mindi/deplist.txt' and add the files to that list. The
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| 45 | added files and dependencies, will be spread across the data disks
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| 46 | at run-time.</para>
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| 47 | <para>Mindi makes sure that Mondo has all the tools it needs at
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| 48 | boot-time. Mondo uses fdisk, mkfs, cat, less, more, afio, gzip,
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| 49 | bzip2, your keyboard configuration, your glibc libraries, your
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| 50 | other libraries, your kernel, your modules, ... a lot! Mindi takes
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| 51 | care of all that, so that Mondo can get on with the job of backing
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| 52 | up or restoring your data.</para>
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| 53 | <para>Mindi is also handy for making boot CDs/disks which stand on
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| 54 | their own. You do not need Mondo. Indeed, if you like, you could
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| 55 | use another backup/restore program with Mindi. Just add it to
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| 56 | Mindi's dependency list (type 'locate deplist.txt' to find it).
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| 57 | Mindi will include your software on its boot CD/disks the next time
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| 58 | you run mindi.</para>
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| 59 | <para></para>
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| 60 | <informaltable><tgroup cols="3"><tbody>
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| 61 | <row>
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| 62 | <entry>
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| 63 | <ulink url="mondorescue.html">Prev</ulink>
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| 64 | </entry>
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| 65 | <entry>
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| 66 | <ulink url="index.html">Home</ulink>
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| 67 | </entry>
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| 68 | <entry>
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| 69 | <ulink url="linuxbackup.html">Next</ulink>
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| 70 | </entry>
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| 71 | </row>
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| 72 | <row>
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| 73 | <entry>
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| 74 | Mondo Rescue
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| 75 | </entry>
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| 76 | <entry>
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| 77 | <ulink url="overview.html">Up</ulink>
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| 78 | </entry>
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| 79 | <entry>
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| 80 | Linux Backup
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| 81 | </entry>
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| 82 | </row>
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| 83 | </tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
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| 84 |
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| 86 | </sect1></article>
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