"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some people take this to an extreme. Silicon Graphics IRIX boxes for > example have a hidden partition called the "miniroot" on every drive. > You can boot off this miniroot in case your OS install gets hosed. > Kind of like having tomsbrt on every drive.
I used to do something similar. Since I usually hosed my setup quite a lot, way back when I was constantly compiling the latest and greatest kernels, I would have a tiny Slackware install that I'd boot off from whenever I did hose the kernel compile. Hmm... maybe later-day systems *should* have something similar, eh? A "rescue" partition, similar to the ones newer laptops have for Windows. -- JM Ibanez Software Architect Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
