Hi, pascal,

on Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 at 16:47 you wrote to amanda-users:

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

pt> Maybe that question is somehow crazy but that´s what they
pt> want me offer them at my practical training. I have no idea.

If it doesn't have to be exactly a floppy, you could pack your own
version of Knoppix with amanda-binaries on it. If you regularly rsync
stuff like curinfo and index-files to another host, you could provide
them to the Knoppix-CD via USB-stick.

Would be an interesting solution, I think ...

There are linux-boot-floppies like tomsrtbt, which you could use to
restore from tapes via mt and dd ...

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at