{"id":1999,"date":"2008-02-19T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2008-02-19T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T21:14:30","slug":"calling-all-geeks-this-here-is-the-phreak-and-were-about-to-go-ahuntin-pear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/calling-all-geeks-this-here-is-the-phreak-and-were-about-to-go-ahuntin-pear","title":{"rendered":"Calling all geeks, this here is the phreak, and we&#8217;re about to go a&#8217;huntin PEAR&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m wondering if anyone has any concrete suggestions about a project I want to do.<\/p>\n<p>I want to make a restore DVD for a friend&#8217;s laptop that contains a image of the laptop and a small bootable version of linux (i.e. DSL) with perl added, and a perl script that will walk said friend through restoring either from the static image or from a removable drive i.e USB keychain, external hard drive, as well as backing up to the removable drive.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any hints on what the best way to roll your own modified bootable linux distro is? I can see me mounting the iso9660 filesystem via a loopback device and writing to it, if the kernel supports such behavior, and then burning it back to a CD.. is that the way to go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m wondering if anyone has any concrete suggestions about a project I want to do. I want to make a restore DVD for a friend&#8217;s laptop that contains a image of the laptop and a small bootable version of linux (i.e. DSL) with perl added, and a perl script that will walk said friend through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}