On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Richard Ingram wrote: RI> I have been upgrading Xfree but something obviously went wrong as when I RI> boot up now it hangs at the starting Xfontserver startup and does not even RI> get to the login prompt. Before I blat over and reinstall debian is there an RI> easy way of creating a set of rescue disks ? I just need to edit a startup RI> file on my root disk. My system is booted from floppy and mounts the SCSI RI> disc. At work we have a Debian system so if anyone knows of a shell script RI> somwhere that I could use to create my file system on floppy that would be RI> greatly appreciated (I know I could hack one up but we are flat out at RI> work), if not it will only take an hour or so to reinstall :-(
You could use the original boot floppy from the debian installation and instead answering the 1st question [i think it's about the type of keyboard what you have] you can go down the menu skipping all the configuration choices, and run the ash shell, then mount the drive what you have problem with to some subdirectory on a ramdisk and fix the problem. You will need rawrite from ftp.debian.org/debian/tools to create the boot floppy in dos/windows and some of the files from ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current, i'm sorry but i don't remember which one you will need, but there should be README file in the same directory. in the README file should be instructions how to create the install floppy/floppies. all this shouldn't take more than some 15-20 minutes :) Dingo. ).|.( '.`___'.` ' `(>~<)' ` -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.inetsolve.com port 5555 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=- Just because you paranoid, it doesn't mean, they're not after you -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-