Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. ooops, i don't think i answered you :-( i did tick your mail and will fix this. except for lilo which is kind of problematic since the binary is of no use without /boot/boot.b (and maybe chain.b...) but this pb may be fixed when we provide a tool that search for the root partition and mounts it in /mnt, because the PATH contains /mnt/disk/sbin:/mnt/disk/bin:/mnt/disk/usr/sbin:/mnt/disk/usr/bin:/mnt/disk/usr/X11R6/bin, in which installed lilo is. if the pb is lilo being missing, then installing it is the best way. > Also, I found that tar had a problem with the hard links in the source file; > it would not restore hard links. as far as i've tested (aka not much) it seems to work. Do you have more info?
