On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I believe the right solution would be to design a separate, true, rescue > disk (what we now call the rescue disk is, in fact, the installation boot > disk) that has none of the installation software installed, but simply > boots into a single user shell with an appropriate set of tools, like vi, > fdisk, dd, ... so that the exprienced sys admin (or consultant) can come > in and recover broken systems. This is fundamentally a different job from > system installation. (in fact if the system installation is perfect you > need no additional tools at all ;-)
Exactly! System "rescue" is fundamentally different from "installation". It is logical and expedient to seperate the two functions. -steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]