| MINDI(8) | Mondo Rescue 3.2.2-r3714 | MINDI(8) |
mindi - a tool for creating boot/root disks
mindi
mindi --findkernel
mindi creates a bootable ISO/USB image using files from the system it runs on.
mindi will try hard to reproduce the environment of its host system including loaded
modules to ensure that the system can be booted properly from the created
rescue media.
mindi is used by
monodarchive(8) to produce the required USB/ISO images but can also be used stand-alone.
For stand-alone usage,
mindi is called without any parameters or switches. It will then interactively ask
the user for all information required to create a set of boot/root media.
.LP
The probably more frequent way of calling
mindi is non-interactively from
mondoarchive(8) using the
--custom switch. All required information is then provided via command line parameters.
The sequence of these parameters is listed below.
.RI Prints the version of mindi.
--findkernel
.RI Finds the image of the running kernel in the file system.
.RI "Creates a mount list and writes it to file "file ".
.RI Create a bootable USB device
Maximum size for disk image in KB.
--custom parameters
.RI "Provide all required parameters to"
mindi .RI "for non-interactive calling. This usually means a call from"
The following parameters are used:
01) directory to use for temporary files
02) directory to put disk images in
03) path to kernel image
04) tape device
05) tape size [MB]
06) total number of files in file list
07) use LZO [yes|no]
08) CD recovery media [yes|no]
09) devices to include
10) conservative LiLo settings [yes|no]
11) number of last file list
12) estimated total number of slices
13) devices to exclude
14) compare mode [yes|no]
15) use lilo [yes|no]
16) use star (rather than tar) [yes|no]
17) internal tape block size [bytes]
18) number of differential backup
19) make non-bootable [yes|no]
20) use gzip [yes|no]
(Blank parameters must be specified as "" on the command line.)
mindi writes some output to the console and extensive information to log file When seeking technical support for please attach this file to your email.
/var/log/mindi.log
Log file of mindi run. Contains important information to analyze mindi problem reports.
/etc/mindi/deplist.txt
List of files to be included on boot/root disks.
/var/cache/mindi/N.tar.gz
Number N of multiple tar balls together containing root file system for rescue media.
/var/cache/mindi/all.tar.gz
Single tar ball of root file system for rescue media.
/var/cache/mindi/initrd.img
initrd image for bootable ISO image.
/var/cache/mindi/mindi-bootroot.img
mindi boot and root media.
/var/cache/mindi/mindi.iso
mindi bootable ISO image.
mondoarchive(8), mondorestore(8).
See mailing list at http://www.mondorescue.org for technical support.
Bruno Cornec (lead-development)
bruno_at_mondorescue.org
Andree Leidenfrost (co-developer)
aleidenf_at_bigpond.net.au
Hugo Rabson (original author)
hugo.rabson_at_mondorescue.org
Jesse Keating (packaging)
hosting_at_j2solutions.net
Stan Benoit (testing)
troff_at_nakedsoul.org
Mikael Hultgren (docs)
mikael_hultgren_at_gmx.net
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