i also think this would be extremely useful if a newbie get's into a "jam" and
is being provided technical support via telephone. would make things much
easier as too having essentially "any" needed tool "at your disposal".
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Since I stopped using Slackware oh so many years ago, I haven't used
> one distribution with a good rescue disk using standard tools. I have
> never checked out the Mandrake rescue disk either - mostly due to the
> requirement of actually using a floppy.
>
> What about providing a second iso-image that is a bootable system, for
> rescue work. It could include all kinds of useful tools and not just
> some weird special environment like the Redhat rescue (again, haven't
> tried Mandrake's but Redhat's has always been completely useless).
>
> Basically, put the best system recovery tools and also stuff like your
> "favorite" editor like vim and emacs on a decently sized, bootable
> ISO image.
>
> Not only would it incredibly useful - I think it would be a great to
> use when trying to convince people in upgrading to Mandrake.
>
> What do you think?
>
> --
> [ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ]
> Hey, what do you expect from a culture that *drives* on *parkways* and
> *parks* on *driveways*?
> -- Gallagher
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