On Friday 26 July 2002 06:01 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > The rescue is not meant for having a basic working linux system, > many other things are meant for it. The rescue is only meant for > you to be able to mount your local partitions and rescue your > mandrake system, whenever you can't boot anymore your mandrake > system. Because of that aim, we limit the number of "useless" > stuff which could make it become larger. We want it to stay > small.
I once had to save as much of a damaged filesystem as I could. It was damaged from a failed drive in a hardware raid configuration that was not rebuilt and it was slowly corrupting the drive... I wanted to save a copy of what was left of a 40gig partition before trying to locally repair the system. I obviously did not have any local diskspace to copy it to. In this case I could have used ssh or nc to stream the data off of the computer. I could have also used samba, but I agree that for a rescue disk samba is too much. You could argue the same about ssh, but nc is a much lighter weight and general network utility. For these reasons I would argue that nc should be included into the rescue disk. I see the rpm for nc is 106.80 kB, and the executable is only 17.7K. Thank you, Jason B. PS: Since you were on the team that help create the rescue disk, could you point me to information on how you created it? I am currently looking into other resources, but I like this ramdisk approach so that you can remove the cd. I would still want to see nc included on the base rescue cd, but this way I could also make and support another rescue cd for larger systems. (As was debated elsewhere in this thread).
