Bug 91067

Summary:	Dump & restore missing from LiveCD's - would be really useful to have for bare-metal restore when Dolphin's extra features aren't necessary
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Kai Leibrandt <k_leibrandt>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kai Leibrandt 2005-05-01 10:11:28 UTC

Even though Project Dolphin is underway, I think it would be really great if dump and restore could be included on the minimal livecd, as this is the only utility causing that cd to not be able to do a bare-metal restore. It would also stop people having to track the development of two cd series (minimal and dolphin). Also, a quote from the Dolphin Meta-Bug; "Remember, this project is expeirmental and nothing considered to be released regulary."

So could dump & restore be included? It's way less than 200k and would be really useful.

Thanks,

Kai.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-02 05:56:12 UTC

I have no intentions on adding any more functionality to the minimal CD.  I am actually looking to decrease its size even more, so 200K is a big deal.  The truth is that Project Dolphin will live on, even if the current maintainer of it decides to quit on it, simply because I think Gentoo needs a good rescue disk, and the minimal install CD is *not* the place for it, as it defeats the purpose of being "minimal" if it has unnecessary packages on it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90053 ***