Pixel wrote: >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? > > -r my boy, -r lilo takes a custom root.
