Jason Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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.

There is already `ftp' in the rescue.
 
> 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 

Pixel created it at first. There is not much documentation on it ;p.

> 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).
> 

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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