Thanks for the responses guys.. the feedback points me to having mc and cfdisk available if I can boot the system, and having something like Gnoppix on a bootable disk if I can't. I this this should allow me to recover from most disasters.
Now I have another question, when I upgraded the Kernel to 2.6.7.1 via the marvellous Mandrake rpm route, applications that us GLX(such as the mission-critical flight game gl-117) fail with :-
Info: Using SDL and GLUT
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
I have all the required libmesgl- libraries installed via rpm, and these apps worked with "official" mandrake 2.6.3 kernel. Are these GL modules kernel/video driver specific ?
thanks
rod
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Mike MacCana wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 12:21 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:

Is there any newbie-friendly emergency recovery tool out there ? By that I mean something that will run from the bootup command line, without X, but has a Gui, allows the user to browse & mount partitions & directories, copy & edit files etc in some sort of visual mode. I realize that experienced users can do all this from the command line but I'm a newbie still, I need a tool like Nautilus combined with a partition tool.



System Rescue CD, Knoppix. Gnoppix. Morphix, etc can do exactly what you want.

Mike

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