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From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Rescue.img
> Derek....it's on the 6.0 disc but is not on the 6.1 disc. It's called
> 'tomsrtbt' (Toms root boot) and is in /images/rescue. There are two
> versions, one for creating the floppy under dos and one for creating it
> under linux as well as a FAQ file. If you don't have the 6.0 disc then
> here's the URL to get it from the author. It's a really neat and
> powerful little distribution.
>
> http://www.toms.net/rb
>
Tomsrtbr is great. I only wish that there would be an image file on the CD
that can easily be used with rawrite or dd to make a floppy instead of the
floppy ceation program. It would seem to be easier (and take less space) and
I don't see any prohibition in the tomsrtbt copyright.Hint. Hint.
Also, creating the boot image from Peanut Linux at
http://metalab.unc.edu/peanut/ can be useful since it implements the
Midnight Commander file manager.
As Axalon pointed out, the CD itself can be used for recovery.
Another floppy distro that is handy is Airmid at
http://airmid.netpedia.net/. He designed it to overcome the usual Lilo boot
dilemmas and it _will_ boot the botched install and allow you to fix it.
(Lilo error message here:
http://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/Bootdisk-HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO-3.5-12.html )
I'm doing a "rescue demo" at my LUG next week and will post my notes in
article form to their web site's sponsor at http://linuxforum.com/
sometime after that.
Hoyt
