Recovery Partitions

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 11/16/06, Gary Jarrel <garyjarrel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I figured that something like dd might to the trick, I was thinking of
> creating an ISO image of the primary partition, placing that onto the
> hidden partition. Then I need an option to make the hidden partition
> bootable, to avoid using any floppies. It could boot into a linux
> based distribution such as ubuntu I guess, and present the user with a
> menu allowing them to override the contents on the first partition

You could do this with grub.


> with the contents of the ISO image hidden on the second partition?
>
> Lets forget for now using a hot key to boot the second (hidden)
> partition and assume we can just make the switch of the bootable
> partitions in the BIOS for repair purposes?
>
>
> Thank you for all your help!
>
> Gary
>
> On 11/16/06, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/15/06, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 09:23, my mailbox was graced by a missive
> > >  from "Gary Jarrel" <garyjarrel at gmail.com> who wrote:
> > >
> > > > Has anyone had any experience in doing something similar?
> > >
> > > What I have been doing for a gaggle of school computers is to create two
> > > primary partitions, one of which is hidden and invisible to Windows.
> > >
> > > Once I have finished the install I Ghost the visible partition to the hidden
> > > one, and I keep handy a bootable floppy with Ghost on it.
> >
> > Along the same lines but a "linux way" of doing it ;-)
> >
> > Boot a linux cd/floppy and:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/<partition with windoze> of=/dev/<hidden partition>
> >
> > >
> > > Not reached the point where I trust the little deast with the floppy yet  ;-3(
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Ron.
> > > --
> > >                     Wer auf die preussiche Fahne schwört,
> > >                    hat nichts mehr das ihm selber gehört.
> > >                                             -- Walter Flex
> > >
> > >                    -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --
> > >
> > > --
> > > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Russ
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> >
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>


-- 
Regards,
Russ