hi,
oh ok. :) i misunderstood your msg. so you want a ISO image that can be
burned onto the CD-R for booting when you screw up something on your system?
geoffrey lee (snail talk)
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Hedbor
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 5:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Rescue ISO?
>
>
> "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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