On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Brian Chabot wrote:

> Ok, I have a (seemingly) simple question...
>
> What would you all reccommend for a Linux rescue CD?  In the past I've
> always used a Tom's RTBT floppy for rescuing Linux boxen, but in this
> age of fewer computers having floppy drives....
>
> So... Any suggestions?

I use the first (Install) CD from Mandrake 8.1. Type F1 to get a LILO
prompt, then "rescue". This boots a ramdisk-based system which
conveniently locates your root partition, mounts it as /mnt, and mounts
whichever partitions it can locate in your fstab under that (/usr becomes
/mnt/usr, etc.). If you're doing this, as so often happens, because of a
trashed MBR, you can chroot /mnt and re-run LILO, and you're all set.


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Bill Mullen
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Mar 6, 2002


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