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| 38 | <A NAME="MAKEMINDITESTCD"></A>6.1. Making a Test CD</H1>
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| 39 | <P ALIGN=LEFT>
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| 40 | Mindi is a vital part of the backup procedure. If you have used Mondo
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| 41 | before or if you are in a hurry, skip steps 6.2 and 6.3; go straight
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| 42 | to QuickStart.</P>
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| 43 | <P ALIGN=LEFT>
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| 44 | However, if you have time or if you have been having trouble getting
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| 45 | Mondo to work, I would recommend trying out Mindi directly (rather
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| 46 | than via Mondo) to see if it can produce a bootable CD on your system.</P>
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| 48 | Make sure you are root while doing this, otherwise mindi will fail,
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| 49 | now do this.</P>
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| 51 | If you have any problems, please:-</P>
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| 55 | read /var/log/mindi.log<BR>
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| 56 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P">feel free to edit mindi (it's a shell script, btw)
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| 57 | to try to fix the problem yourself<BR>
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| 58 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P">contact the mailing list if you get stuck.</P>
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| 61 | Type:-</P>
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| 66 | <TD BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" VALIGN=CENTER><PRE
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| 67 | CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"><FONT
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| 68 | COLOR="BLACK">bash# mindi </FONT></TD></TR>
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| 72 | Example screen output, selecting to use your own kernel, to create
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| 73 | boot disks, and to create a bootable CD image:</P>
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| 80 | COLOR="BLACK">Mindi Linux mini-distro generator v0.72 by HRabson <hugorabson@msn.com></FONT><BR><FONT
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| 81 | COLOR="BLACK">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 82 | COLOR="BLACK">Do you want to use your own kernel to build the boot disk (y/n) ? y</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 83 | COLOR="BLACK">Your kernel is /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.14-k6 (v2.4.14-k6)</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 84 | COLOR="BLACK">Generating list of dependency files........................ Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 85 | COLOR="BLACK">Analyzing your keyboard's configuration.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 86 | COLOR="BLACK">Adding the following keyboard mapping tables:................... Done</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 87 | COLOR="BLACK">Dropping i686-optimized libraries if appropriate.............Done</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 88 | COLOR="BLACK">Assembling dependency files........ Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 89 | COLOR="BLACK">The files have been subdivided into 2 directories.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 90 | COLOR="BLACK">Your mountlist will look like this:-</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 91 | COLOR="BLACK">DEVICE MOUNTPOINT FORMAT SIZE (MB)</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 92 | COLOR="BLACK">/dev/hda3 / ext2 996</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 93 | COLOR="BLACK">/dev/hda2 swap swap 127</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 94 | COLOR="BLACK">/dev/hda4 /usr ext2 6189</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 95 | COLOR="BLACK">Tarring and zipping the groups......... Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 96 | COLOR="BLACK">Creating data disk #1...#2... Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 97 | COLOR="BLACK">1722KB boot disk was created OK............................ Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 98 | COLOR="BLACK">2880KB boot disk was created OK............................ Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 99 | COLOR="BLACK">In the directory '/root/images/mindi' you will find the images:-</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 100 | COLOR="BLACK">mindi-boot.1722.img mindi-boot.2880.img mindi-data-1.img mindi-data-2.img</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 101 | COLOR="BLACK">Would you like to create boot+data floppy disks now (y/n) ?y</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 102 | COLOR="BLACK">WARNING! THIS WILL ERASE YOUR FLOPPY DISKS.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 103 | COLOR="BLACK">About to write boot disk. Please press ENTER.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 104 | COLOR="BLACK">Writing boot disk.................................................. Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 105 | COLOR="BLACK">About to write data disk #1. Please press ENTER.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 106 | COLOR="BLACK">Writing data disk #1........................... Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 107 | COLOR="BLACK">About to write data disk #2. Please press ENTER.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 108 | COLOR="BLACK">Writing data disk #2........................... Done.</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 109 | COLOR="BLACK">Shall I make a bootable CD image? (y/n) y</FONT><BR><FONT
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| 110 | COLOR="BLACK">Finished.</FONT><BR><BR><FONT
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| 111 | COLOR="BLACK">One 1.72MB boot disk, one 2.88MB boot disk and 2 data disks were created. </FONT></TD></TR>
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| 115 | If your kernel is too large (more than about 900KB) then you cannot
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| 116 | make boot floppies, although you can still make a bootable CD image.
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| 117 | The easiest way to test Mindi in either case is to say 'n' to its
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| 118 | first question and 'y' to its second, then use the separate
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| 119 | application cdrecord to make a bootable CD-R or CD-RW.</P>
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