On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 15:57 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Friday, 17 בMarch 2006 21:22, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > Two more points I would like to clarify: > > > 1-Floppies, in my mind are important not for carying data but for > > > boot and repair in emergencies. What does one use nowadays? > > > bootable usbsticks? > > > > Either that, or Live Linux CDs. (There's literally hundreds of them.) > > I couple of good options: > > Major distributions today (and quite a few of the minor ones) have a > rescue mode on the main install CD where the system boots to a small > live system (no graphics) which allows most rescue operations, > sometimes aided by user friendly menus. > > The SuSE rescue mode (from the 10.1 beta, which is what I tried) is > excellent and offers everything you need to automatically rescue your > system from common mishaps, as long as its a SuSE system. > Mandriva's rescue is far more general, offers less automation but gives > you shell with all drives and drivers automatically detected, if the > minimal rescue menu doesn't help you. > Fedora's rescue mode (current to FC4) is horrible - it basically gives > you a very 90-esque shell and let you figure it all yourself, but at > least its there. >
In Fedora's defense, the rescue mode in FC5 (due tomorrow) is supposed to have improved considerably. Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
