Mondo/mindi - the story so far

[Daniel Robitaille]

> Is personal repositary easy to do, I think i'le just dpkg -i them.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html
But in my case, it essentially boiled down to put the deb packages in
one directory and do:
    dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz

 
> or alternativly I supose one (slightly) easier way to go would be to
> run a warty/horty mixed system and just get mondo/mindi from horty
> universe (I guess the only apt source from universe I would use is
> universe).

there was an e-mail on the list recently on how to have both Hoary's
and Warty's universe in your apt sources, and add a pinning option to
make sure they are not mixed up except for what you pick to install. 
In my case, I prefered the option of controlling manually want I
wanted from Hoary to minimize the chances of screwing  up.  (not that
manually added packages from Hoary is a safe route in the first
place.... but that was the risk level I was willing to take)

> Was this the ones from the unoficial debian mondo repository - I tried
> using this and the mindi-kernel package was not there;(

When I tested using the packages from Debian, I used the one in
debian's unstable
 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mondo/

> > *) added "loop" to /etc/modules
> 
> BYW douse it actualy have to be added to /etc/modules or is simply
> modprobe loop before the backup enough

you can do a modprobe each time you do a backup, but it will be lost
the next time you do a reboot. Personally I reboot often enough that
it made more sense to add it to /etc/modules to make it permanent. 
And I suspect it's not a big drain on system resources.

> However the really interesting question was are you using the Ubundu
> kernal or the mindi kernel?

I'm using the standardl Ubuntu's kernel.

> I'me going to have to do the backup straight to DVD - my drive fairly
> full.  How would I do this? ( RTFM is a valid answer:) ).

man mondoarchive   :)

seriously,  it seems to use a DVD instead of a CD-RW, you to use the
-r option for mondoarchive instead of the -w I used in my previous
e-mail (and also you need to remove the limit on 650meg on the isos)


 > > While I haven't yet tried  a full restore yet, the backup CDs boot
> > properly, and I can read the files off them. So it seems to work.
> 
> Great.  At some point I will be restoring to a bigger disk with
> different partitioning.  Now that will be fun;)

I have to do the same at one point, so share your experience when you do it!