"Mark W. Eichin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ? ] >>Does anyone in the audience have a good script for creating a boot/root >>emergency disk set? I backup every night but should probably also have a set > >I found the install boot/root set to be fairly useful... given a >second system to make floppies on if you need debugfs, for example.
I just created a third floppy with an ext2fs on it, and shoved a bunch of binaries I need on it like vim, e2fsck, ls (if you really need it), dd, and so on. Then, after the normal Debian boot/root duo, I execute a shell, mount that third floppy on /mnt, change my PATH export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/sbin:/mnt/bin:/mnt/usr/bin" and then do what I need to do. Right now, that means deploying machines by dd'ing a 'pure' harddrive to an empty one, editing the host-specific files, and moving on. >Most Useful bit of Learning: 8195. Remember that number. (On a >1024byte block size filesystem, that seems to be the default location >for the first backup-superblock -- and fsck won't guess or tell you >that...) I thought it was 8193, but I can't check right now. Mike D. ------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
