On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:48, Vidiot wrote: > >Mondoarchive is a freely available linux backup program. In addition to > >backing up specified directories, it makes a boot disk as well. > > Sorry, never heard of it until now. > > >I can make a usable CD-RW boot disk using mindi (the boot disk portion > >of mondoarchive), but cannot boot from the backup CD-RW disk set I make > >with mondoarchive. A mondoarchive backup disk set written to CD-R's > >works just fine. > > This doesn't make sense, which is probably why you are tearing your hair out. > > I'm assuming that the CD burner that you are creating the CDs on is the same > drive that you are attempting to boot from. If NOT, I suspect that the CD-ROM > drive is not fully capable of reading CD-RW discs. I still run across that > problem where I work. Yeah, I thought of that too- my boot drive is different from my burner. Burning the disk then switching drives before re-booting didn't eliminate the problem :(( > > If the writing drive and booting drive are the same, then I do not have an > answer. > > MB > -- > e-mail: vidiot@xxxxxxxxxx /~\ The ASCII > \ / Ribbon Campaign > [So it's true, scythe matters. Willow 5/12/03] X Against > Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
