According to Ted Gervais: While burning my CPU.
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> 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.
> >
> > 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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> 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.
RAWRITE is a DO$ program, so you would need to use it under DOS, to copy a
boot image from a cdrom to a floppy under linux you would use the 'dd'
command.
dd if=/dev/cdrom/bla/foo/bare.i of=/dev/fd0 obs=18k
To quote the INSTALL.TXT section 3.4.2.1 on a slackware cdrom.
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> 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.??
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> 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...
Tell us about it Ted, whats the problem??.
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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.
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> 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]>
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Regards Richard.
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