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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Since I had to use the rescue-mode of the Installation-CD lately, I
had some ideas about a few nice features:
> 1. could midnight commander be included, it has a nice editor

What's wrong with vi ;-).

> 2. would it not be nice to integrate the ncurses versions of the
> drakxstools, so you could alter some of the basic configuration

# chroot /mnt
# drakxconf

> 3. partimage would be nice, so you could image your partitions

Has been requested before, but maintainer says it's too big. I keep a
copy of it in my /home.

> 4. is it possible to remove packages via rpm/urpmi in rescue mode ? if
> not it would be nice to have such a feature

# chroot /mnt
# urpmi

> after all my idea is to have a basic operating system, the absolute
> dream however would be something like knoppix without all those
> gimmicks included: a basic graphic system with the ability to remove
> packages, image partitions and edit configuration files in a
> comfortable way

IMHO, a better project would be making up some tools to make bootable
CDs of your choice.

> what do you think about such an idea, or maybe are some of this even
working right now ?

Including too many tools for no reason on the rescue image makes it too
big, and then packages have to be left out of the distro.

Instead of making boot CDs, you could rather learn vi, and be able to
rescue any unix system without tools that may not be available.

Regards,
Buchan

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