Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > 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.
You flame but you don't understand.
> > 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?
If you wanna provide tons of things with the rescue, you need to use some
disk space.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
