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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Tape backup
From:       Charles Hixson <charleshixsn () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2000-03-31 16:44:26
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It's a pity that when the CD starts up it doesn't give your the option
"Rescue, Install, or ?" (I haven't figured out what the third option ought
to be, as upgrade is usually a sub-menu under install), but I haven't come
across a distribution yet that does it that way, even though, as you say,
most of them do include a rescue disk on the CD.

Note:  I don't think that Tom's Robot works with the newer versions of the
file system (well, it didn't when I checked several months ago, but things
DO change... it could even split itself onto two disks and load the first
one into ram before asking for the second one now, sort of a RAM vs. CD
trade off, which might be useful).

Klaus Wachtler wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:30:23AM -0700, Dan Ferris wrote:
> > ...
> > Well, this leads me to a question then...
> >
> > I do have a boot floppy.  It works.  I use lilo to select the
> > kernel image on the floppy disk.
> >
> > BUT, if my hard disk crashed and I couldn't use lilo anymore, I
> > would need some sort of rescue disk.  The disk would have to boot
> > without lilo, and have a minature version of the filesystem on
> > it, along with enough commands to restore the system.
> >
> > Is there a command to make a rescue disk in this manner???  If
> > not, is there a HOWTO that I can read???
> >
>
> On my first Linux tries some years ago I had such a disk. But now the
> actual kernel will be to big to fit on a floppy disk together with the
> things you need in small root system on a ramdisk.
>
> So I installed about two years ago a small rescue system on in IDE zip
> disk (IOMEGA, 100 MB).
>
> But this way seems to be obsolete because a modern distribution will
> have such a rescue system on CD (I know SuSE has it, other will have
> too i think). If you can not boot from CD then take the boot disk from
> from the distro and access the rescue system on CD this way.
>
> Klaus
>
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