>
> FYI, the rescue is a small system, located in memory and mounted as a
> ramdisk.
>
It has exactly the same size as stage2:
[root@test base]# ll
total 47788
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9900324 Jul 19 19:23 mdkinst_stage2.bz2
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9354815 Jul 19 19:21 rescue_stage2.bz2
...
[root@test base]#
> How could we do anything else? We're in rescue mode, we have no access to
> a disk to "write" the rescue system.
>
So you mean we need writable root in rescue mode? Good, it means, that
people with 32MB of memory can not use rescue anymore. Very nice.
> The rescue can be considered as very similar to a "demolinux" system.
>
I have no idea what "demolinux" is, but is it not a bit too much to require
64MB to be able to rescue your system?
-andrej
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