Eee Community Files

Restore-eeepc: A small utility to restore and backup ASUS Eee PC
Release: 20081014

Author: Chih-Wei Huang (cwhuang at linux.org.tw)
        Eee PC Hacking Blog (Chinese)
        http://www.cwhuang.idv.tw/

License: GNU GPL


What's It?

Restore-eeepc is a utility that helps you to restore and backup your
ASUS Eee PC. It is just a ramdisk that boots up very fast.
It also contains virtual console (Alt-F2/F3) and utilities like
mount, vi, cpio and chroot, so it can be used as a system rescue tool.


How to use it?

* Prepare a USB stick, with at least 30MB free space.

* Install grub to the USB stick
  Refer: http://www.cwhuang.idv.tw/2008/07/restore-xandros-manual#grub

* Download the vmlinuz and restore.img from SourceForge:
  http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=215613&package_id=273358&release_id=617047
  http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=215613&package_id=273358&release_id=633171
  Put the two files into the /boot directory of the USB stick.

* Add such an entry to menu.lst of grub

  title Restore Eee PC
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz quiet rw vga=normal irqpoll root=/dev/ram0
        initrd /boot/restore.img

  Also remember to enable menu and add some timeout so you can choose
  this entry.

* To restore your Eee PC, download an ISO from
  http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=215613&package_id=268031
  and put it into a USB drive (not necessary the same as the booting one).

* Reboot your Eee PC, press ESC on the BIOS screen, select the USB stick
  as the boot device, and choose 'Restore Eee PC' from the grub menu.

* After booting, select the device and directory that contains the ISO,
  and choose Yes to restore your Eee PC.
  WARNING: All existing data on Eee PC will lose after restoration.

* Press Alt-F2, Alt-F3 to switch to other virtual consoles
  for debugging or rescue.

* You can create your customized ISO by the scrpit mkp701.sh
  for restoration later.
  Refer: http://www.cwhuang.idv.tw/2008/10/restore-eeepc-update


Developer:

If you'd like to improve restore-eeepc, get the source code by
svn co https://eeecommunity.svn.sf.net/svnroot/eeecommunity/restore-eeepc/trunk

Modify the files in the root directory, and run create.sh to generate
a new restore.img in the boot directory.


Contact:

Feel free to contact me if you encounter any problem.
cwhuang at linux.org.tw

Visit my blog for more information
http://www.cwhuang.idv.tw/  (Chinese only, Sorry)