If your backup is on a remote machine, the Mandrake rescue disk is not useful. It needs: ssh, scp, rsh, rlogin, tar, cpio and lilo for it be more useful. Also, I found that tar had a problem with the hard links in the source file; it would not restore hard links. This isn't a Mandrake issue per se, but Mandrake did make hard links for gzip gunzip and zcat, so I had a problem with those. It might be better to use symbolic links if that works. Hoyt
