RE: [Mondo-devel] Still trouble accessing CDROM in Compare mode

[Hugo R. <mon...@bt...>]

Michael Frotscher wrote:-
> I think mondo-restore is
> trying to mount the "1.iso" as a loopback device instead of looking
> for the files on the (already mounted) CDROM...I probabyl set a wrong
> switch when calling mondo-archive or something...the line I used for
> just backing up /etc for testing is:
> # mondoarchive -OVi -s 700m \
> # -d /path/to/mondobackup/isos -I "/etc" -g

Ah. There's the problem.

You backed up to a hard disk, not CDs. Therefore, the boot media (the CD)
assumes you want to restore the same way. It can't find the device you
backed up to, or the ISO images themselves, so it aborts.

To fix it, just type 'mondorestore' after it fails.

-Hugo