added my comment at the end:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> hi,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Hedbor
> > Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 4:48 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Rescue ISO?
> >
> >
> > Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > "Geoffrey lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > oh ok. :) i misunderstood your msg. so you want a ISO image
> > that can be
> > > > burned onto the CD-R for booting when you screw up something
> > on your system?
> > >
> > > As for the rescue. 7.1 should have a good one.
> > >
> > > The idea is to use a rescue_stage2.img instead of mdkinst_stage2.img
> > > this file should be less than 15MB to fit in ramdisk. That way
> > the cdrom can be
> > > removed after booting and replaced by another one :)
> >
> > Sounds nice. The only thing I want to avoid is having to use
> > floppys. If it can fit on the normal CD - great! Please consider
> > having some editor other than vi though, like jed or at least pico. We
> > emacs people don't like and can't use vi* and since emacs couldn't fit
> > in 15 MB... :)
>
>
> ewwww...!! emacs!! urgh... it's so big and kludged ! :-)
>
> i use vi myself. but i guess pico is a good choice. it's nice and easy to
> use.
>
> so i gues the list of editors could be ed, vi , ex, and pico.
> please remember that the rescue _is_ a minimal distro, which is only for
> getting your system back up. it is not a distro for daily use!! so i
> wouldn't dream if adding more editors than necessary..
>
i've been around for some time, and i guess it's no secret, but the reason for
the minimal distro size was due to the restricted size of the floppy diskette
(~ 1mb). Now an ls120 diskette will hold 120 mb and move almost twice as fast.
since cd-r's have become more popular and are considered standard devices, it
too could be considered a "standard" for rescue media.
note: there is no real limitations (yet) to the miscellaneous "rescue" tools
that you can toss into it.
i'm presently downloading www.demolinux.org and will check it out
later.....looks real spiffy of which, a newbie won't have to mess with command
line stuff anymore! sure if ms got thier hands on this idea, they'd sell the
rescue iso/cd-r for about $100 (ransom money....lol).
