- Boot up the Knoppix CDROM into textual mode in RAM
knoppix 2 toram
- Eject the CDROM for possible use in another host
- Setup basic networking.
- Setup Ethernet interface:
ifconfig eth0 <ip> netmask <nm> up
- Setup default gateway (this can be skipped if files on same subnet):
route add default gw <ip_address>
- Setup correct date / time info. This information will be assumed to be correct by the partimage backup script.
export TZ=CDT
date 07181314 (MMDDhhmm)
- Assign "normal" root password
- Start up SSH server
/etc/init.d/ssh start
- SCREEN a new BASH session
chmod 755 /var/run/screen
screen bash
- Make a working directory and cd there:
mkdir /tmp/partimage
cd /tmp/partimage
- Scp the "partimage-backup.pl" script and the <hostname>-source-me.txt file.
- Source the <hostname>-source-me.txt file in.
- Use perl to execute the "partimage-backup.pl" script.
