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| 19 | Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux HOWTO</TD>
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| 37 | <A NAME="MINDILINUX"></A>3.2. Mindi Linux</H1>
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| 39 | Mindi Linux creates a set of boot/root floppy disk images that will
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| 40 | let you perform basic system maintenance on your Linux distro. The
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| 41 | principal virtues of Mindi's boot disks are the fact that they
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| 42 | contain your kernel, modules, tools and libraries. You can ask for
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| 43 | additional binaries (or other files) to be included on the kit. The
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| 44 | libraries will be added for you.</P>
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| 46 | Whichever modules were loaded at backup-time, they are reloaded at
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| 47 | boot-time. So, in theory, you will boot into almost the same
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| 48 | environment as you were in when you backed up. If you want to add
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| 49 | files to your Mindi boot disks, edit '<INSTALLPATH OF MINDI>/mindi/deplist.txt'
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| 50 | and add the files to that list. The added files and dependencies,
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| 51 | will be spread across the data disks at run-time.</P>
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| 53 | Mindi makes sure that Mondo has all the tools it needs at boot-time.
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| 54 | Mondo uses fdisk, mkfs, cat, less, more, afio, gzip, bzip2, your
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| 55 | keyboard configuration, your glibc libraries, your <I>other</I>
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| 56 | libraries, your kernel, your modules, ... a lot! Mindi takes care of
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| 57 | all that, so that Mondo can get on with the job of backing up or
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| 58 | restoring your data.</P>
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| 60 | Mindi is also handy for making boot CDs/disks which stand on their
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| 61 | own. You do not need Mondo. Indeed, if you like, you could use
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| 62 | another backup/restore program with Mindi. Just add it to Mindi's
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| 63 | dependency list (type 'locate deplist.txt' to find it). Mindi will
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| 64 | include your software on its boot CD/disks the next time you run mindi.</P>
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