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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.
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> > Is there a way to do this with just a boot disk; one that is made at the
> > time of installing linux, so that one is not left high and dry if something
> > happens to the system...
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> 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.
Well *.i and color.gz disks will present you with a login prompt without a
passwd, just simply type root at the prompt after color.gz has loaded, then
you can mount what you want and repair your system.
By *.i, i mean all disks such as bare.i net.i mcd.i etc etc.
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> Good Luck,
>
> Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
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Regards Richard.
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