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mondorescue - Disaster recovery suite for Linux and Windows ChangeLog

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# Mondo Rescue
# ============
# This covers the Mondo Rescue disaster recovery solution and it's
# prerequisites.

# Not sure if I've got the latest versions covered here or not.  The new
# site is www.mondorescue.org.  Development is at mondorescue.berlios.de.
# freshmeat links to ftp.berlios.de/pub/mondorescue/src/, which doesn't
# exist.  And none of the above have tarballs for the versions last
# announced to the announce mailing list: mondo 2.05 and mindi 1.05
# There are also rXXX releases around, but I have no idea what those are,
# I'm guessing those are development versions.  I got a freshmeat
# announcement about mondo 2.06 in January, but I can't find 2.06 (without
# rXXX or cvs_XXXX) anywhere.

# Create a directory for the tarballs and for the source
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/installed/mondorescue ~/src/mondorescue

# mindi 1.04
# ==========
# mindo creates a set of boot/root floppy disk images that are almost the
# same as your current environment.  Excellent for maintenance and rescue.

# Keep an eye out in future versions.  You can always install it wherever
# you want, but the default prefix used in the install.sh script changed
# from /usr/local in mindi 1.00 to /usr in mindi 1.01 and there was no
# mention of it in CHANGES.

# Prerequisites:
# isolinux/syslinux (Slackware 9.0 has a 'syslinux' package that includes
#   version 2.01, Slackware 9.1's includes version 2.06)

cd
test -f installed/mondorescue/mindi-1.04.tar.gz &&
mv installed/mondorescue/mindi-1.04.tar.gz .
test ! -f mindi-1.04.tar.gz &&
wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/src/mindi-1.04.tar.gz
cd src/mondorescue
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "mindi-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/mindi-1.04.tar.gz
cd mindi-1.04
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Become root to install it
su

chmod +x ./mindi
./install.sh
chown -R root:root /usr/share/mindi
test -f /sbin/mkdosfs &&
test ! -L /sbin/mkfs.vfat &&
  ln -sf /sbin/mkdosfs /sbin/mkfs.vfat

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
rm -f installed/mondorescue/mindi-*.tgz installed/mondorescue/mindi-*.tar.*
mv mindi-1.04.tar.gz installed/mondorescue/

# Run 'mindi' to create boot/root floppies.  FYI, /usr/sbin/mindi is
# a symlink to /usr/share/mindi/mindi.  mondo will use mindi itself, so
# if you don't want to specifically run mindi, leave that to mondo when
# you're done.

# buffer 1.19
# ===========
cd
test -f installed/mondoarchive/buffer-1.19.tgz &&
mv installed/mondoarchive/buffer-1.19.tgz
test ! -f buffer-1.19.tgz &&
wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/src/buffer-1.19.tgz
cd src/mondorescue
tar xzvf ~/buffer-1.19.tgz
cd buffer-1.19
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
su -c "make install INSTMAN=/usr/man/man1"
cd
rm -f installed/mondorescue/buffer-*.tgz
mv buffer-1.19.tgz installed/mondorescue/

# mondo 2.04
# ==========
# Prerequisites (beyond those listed above):
# gawk
# sed
# grep
# newt
# bzip2
# afio
# cdrtools' cdrecord, mkisofs
# ncurses
# buffer (above)
# isolinux/syslinux (Slackware has a 'syslinux' package)
# lzo (optional)
# lzop (optional)
# parted
# ms-sys
# XFree86/X.org, zlib, libpng, libjpeg, Qt, and KDE (required for --with-x11)

cd
test -f installed/mondorescue/mondo-2.04.tgz &&
mv installed/mondorescue/mondo-2.04.tgz .
test ! -f mondo-2.04.tgz &&
wget ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/src/mondo-2.04.tgz
cd ~/src/mondorescue
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "mondo-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/mondo-2.04.tgz
cd mondo-2.04
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# If you want XMondo, add --with-x11 to the configure line.  It failed to
# build for me the last time I tried it and I didn't pursue it any further.
# Maybe next update...

# Fix the --wxr----x (?) permissions of configure:
chmod 755 ./configure

./configure
make
su -c "make install ; ldconfig"
cd
rm -f installed/mondorescue/mondo-*.tgz
mv mondo-2.04.tgz installed/mondorescue/

# Before you run 'mondoarchive', make sure that RAM disk support is enabled
# in your kernel, and that the 'rd' module is loaded.