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<title>Making a Test CD</title>
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Mondo Rescue and Mindi Linux HOWTO
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<ulink url="testingmindi.html">Prev</ulink>
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Chapter 6. Testing Mindi
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<ulink url="writingminditestcd.html">Next</ulink>
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<sect1 id="MAKEMINDITESTC"><title>6.1. Making a Test CD</title>
<para>Mindi is a vital part of the backup procedure. If you have
used Mondo before or if you are in a hurry, skip steps 6.2 and 6.3;
go straight to QuickStart.</para>
<para>However, if you have time or if you have been having trouble
getting Mondo to work, I would recommend trying out Mindi directly
(rather than via Mondo) to see if it can produce a bootable CD on
your system.</para>
<para>Make sure you are root while doing this, otherwise mindi will
fail, now do this.</para>
<para>If you have any problems, please:-</para>
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<para>read /var/log/mindi.log</para>
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<listitem>feel free to edit mindi (it's a shell script, btw) to try
to fix the problem yourself</listitem>
<listitem>contact the mailing list if you get stuck.</listitem>
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<para>Type:-</para>
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bash# mindi 

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<para>Example screen output, selecting to use your own kernel, to
create boot disks, and to create a bootable CD image:</para>
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Mindi Linux mini-distro generator v0.72 by HRabson &lt;hugorabson@msn.com&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------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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<para>If your kernel is too large (more than about 900KB) then you
cannot make boot floppies, although you can still make a bootable
CD image. The easiest way to test Mindi in either case is to say
'n' to its first question and 'y' to its second, then use the
separate application cdrecord to make a bootable CD-R or
CD-RW.</para>
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<ulink url="testingmindi.html">Prev</ulink>
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<ulink url="index.html">Home</ulink>
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<ulink url="writingminditestcd.html">Next</ulink>
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Testing Mindi
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<ulink url="testingmindi.html">Up</ulink>
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Writing the Test CD image
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