John....that is the fun of all this, learning new things! ;-)
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > John....that's not what I said, but you are correct. There is no file
> > called rescue.img on my Mdk 6.0 CD or either of my Mdk 6.1 CD's.
> > However on the Mdk 6.0 CD there is a sub called /images/rescue and in it
> > are the three "Tom's root boot" files (they are not named rescue.img).
> >
> Well, I'll be darned..you're right. I coulda sworn that there was a
> rescue.img. :-) I just learned something new then. :-)
> FWIW, I've never had any problem with the RedHat rescue disk.. and
> I've used it several times. :-)
> One of the more recent times was to boot up a system I didn't know
> the root password on to add a user and change the root password...
> and I did it the RIGHT way... :-)
> logged in using the boot and rescue disks, mounted the hard drive,
> changed root to the hard drive and then ran "passwd root" and changed
> the root password. The first time I did that, I forgot to run "sync"
> afterwards and spent about 10 minutes pulling what little hair I have
> left out. ;-)
> After I figured it out, it was a cinch to reboot with the rescue
> disk, change the password again, THIS time, I ran "sync," unmounted
> the system and rebooted. ;-)
> Worked like a charm! :-)
> John
