On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Dan Brown wrote:

>       I've been kicking around for a while the idea of an "emergency
> restore" system for e-smith/SME.  The way I envision it, you'd boot
> off whatever medium (boot floppy or CD), and it would automatically
> (after confirmation) repartition and reformat the hard drive, and
> then do a full restore from tape.  I'd eventually like to see this
> included as part of the installation CD as another option on the
> setup menu (instead of just install/upgrade, it'd be
> install/upgrade/restore), but for the time being, I think something
> simpler might be in order.

You could do probably do this with a very minor modification to the
kickstart file of a re-install floppy.

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