On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 at 4:47pm, pascal thomas wrote

> I´d like to know if it is possible to prepare a floppy-disk to 
> reinstall an OS with it. E.g. a harddisk crashs and a full dump has been 
> made before of every partition. I want to use a new PC with a 
> nonformated harddisk drive then insert a floppy-disk and run amanda. Is 
> that possible and if yes, how?

I'm assuming your OS is Linux here.  Look at Linux-on-CD kits like 
Knoppix.  I don't know if Knoppix includes the amanda tools, but even if 
it doesn't you can get your images off the tapes with dd and mt.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University