mmmm... i sort of like this idea. you know when floppy became a standard for
backup media? well, i think the cdrom is well established as well and could be
done the same way! most are bootable as well. i'm sure anyone that can boot
the mandrake 7.0 cdrom would be able to use this.
By the way, win98 rescue disk is essentially "read-only"! If you have the
notch in the write protect position!
So essentially, you have a nice idea, of which, i think is long over due but
hindered because some people didn't have a bootable cd-rom about a year or 2
ago.
I have an ls120 drive, of which, doesn't have full kernel support yet for a
rescue disk making....mmmmm....i know i should have one as well. buying
another 3 1/2 disk drive takes another irq, so is'nt the solution to my
problem. (guess i hafta kernel patch it sometime).
But this would solve the problem of disk space. example: could burn your own
cd-r of all the modules needed by your system and including system
configuration settings for network etc.... of course the latter maybe
stretching it allittle because most would start "browsing" with netscape....lol.
But having the basic essentials as the win98 rescue disk does is possible from
what i see and probabley has already been done! just not published!!
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> "geoffrey lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > If your system is too broken to even use sash (linux 1 at the lilo boot
> > prompt.) why don't you check out tomsrtbt...
>
> Well, often when I need a rescue disk is if I screw up a kernel
> install. I normally do this now by booting the normal install and
> using the shell vt to mount the harddrive and run lilo from it. So
> running sash won't help since the system won't boot. :)
>
> > It uses kernel 2.0 + libc5 i think, but i hear that if you want to use glibc
> > you can, provided that yo have glibc placed somewhere on the hasrd drive,
> > and you can use chroot. a lot of the commands in toms are actually clevwerly
> > written shell scripts.
>
> That is just a thing - something that uses the same kernel, libc and
> other tools would be a lot more valuable to me.
>
> > Vim and emacs?!! they wouldn't fit on one floppy...btw, tomsrtbt does have
> > vi.
>
> Well, that is why I was taking about making a CDROM ISO image. :) I
> might simply do an install in vmware and make a iso of the entire
> installed filesystem with single user as the default boot mode. The
> problem then is that you'll get some weirdness with a read-only
> filesystem. To do it "right" you would want at least /etc/ mounted on
> a ramdisk.
>
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