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(Disclaimer: I've not seen nor used it, I'm simply mentioning it).
Cheers
Tony
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:28:07 +0000
From: Kent Robotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RIP - "Recovery Is Possible!" - single floppy boot/rescue system
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Title: RIP "Recovery Is Possible!"
Version: 1.0
Entered-date: 08JUL2000
Description: Small linux system for the purpose of system booting
or repairing, a boot/rescue system.
You can put this system on a 1.44mb formatted floppy,
it will probably also boot from a LS-120 1.44mb floppy.
It has support for these filesystems.
ext2 <Linux filesystem, read-write>
iso9660 <Cdrom filesystem + joliet extensions, read-only>
msdos <Dos filesystem, read-write>
ntfs <Windows NT filesystem, read-only>
reiserfs <Linux filesystem, read-write>
ufs <FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Sun/Solaris, filesystems,
read-write>
umsdos <Umsdos filesystem, read-write>
vfat <Win95/98 filesystem fat16 and 32, read-write>
The kernel is version 2.2.17pre10, it just has support
for IDE hard drives.
You need at least 8mb of ram and a 486dx cpu to boot it.
It's a zip archive you can extract it like this.
c:\ pkunzip -d rip-10.zip
# unzip rip-10.zip
rip-10.zip 1383kb
Keywords: Single Floppy Boot/Rescue System
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent Robotti)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/rip
Alternate-site:
Platforms: Linux or dos/win system with floppy drive.
Copying-policy: GPL
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