On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > I was wondering the proper way to making up a rescue disk. I have a boot
> > disk for linux such that it will boot up to a certain point and then asks
> > for 'something' to mount and if you have nothing, then that is where you
> > stay.
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> Slackware, and, I suppose, most of the distributions, has a boot-rescue
> system right on the distribution CDROM. Just rawrite it to two floppies.
You are right. 'rawrite' is there. I tried it and the system wouldn't boot
with it. And it only made ONE floppy. Not two?? I first tried it using
EMUdos, and then I booted up DOS and tried it that way - right from the
CDROM, but the first time I just entered the commands manually and the
second time I let the rescue.bat file do it.
In either case - things just stopped at the bootup ; never going passed
the floppy. Obviously I have done something wrong. I wonder what that
could be.??
Oh - I should mention....this system I am doing this on is ok. Nothing
wrong here, but there is another one that is sick that I (we) are trying
to get to...
> I'm not absolutely sure of this, but, at least in Slackware, the one made
> at the time of installation will _not_ do for rescue. It plans to boot
> the system and mount the stuff on hard disk. But this may not work if the
> disk is corrupted somehow.
Yes. I believe that is right. That is why I am trying to make a TRUE
rescue disk to be ready for now and the future...
>
Thanks for responding. It is apprecated...
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Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
