had problems with the ls120 diskette drive on my system...actually any boot
diskettes. i dislike the old 3 1/2 standard drives because they're slow,
still take an irq, and small in size.
(just my 2 cents)
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 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...
>
> 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.
>
> vim and emacs?!! they wouldn't fit on one floppy...btw, tomsrtbt does have
> vi.
>
> geoffrey lee (snail talk)
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Hedbor
> > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 4:36 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Cooker] Rescue ISO?
> >
> >
> >
> > Since I stopped using Slackware oh so many years ago, I haven't used
> > one distribution with a good rescue disk using standard tools. I have
> > never checked out the Mandrake rescue disk either - mostly due to the
> > requirement of actually using a floppy.
> >
> > What about providing a second iso-image that is a bootable system, for
> > rescue work. It could include all kinds of useful tools and not just
> > some weird special environment like the Redhat rescue (again, haven't
> > tried Mandrake's but Redhat's has always been completely useless).
> >
> > Basically, put the best system recovery tools and also stuff like your
> > "favorite" editor like vim and emacs on a decently sized, bootable
> > ISO image.
> >
> > Not only would it incredibly useful - I think it would be a great to
> > use when trying to convince people in upgrading to Mandrake.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > --
> > [ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ]
> > Hey, what do you expect from a culture that *drives* on *parkways* and
> > *parks* on *driveways*?
> > -- Gallagher
> >
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