Re: rescue disk

From: Chris Lale (chrislale_at_untrammelled.co.uk)
Date: 11/30/04

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:11:48 +0000

    On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
    > George Iordanou wrote:
    > > I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage
    > > and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following
    > > files:
    > >
    > > boot.img
    > > cd-drivers.img
    > > net-drivers.img
    > > root.img
    > >
    > > How can i create a bootable rescue disk? I want to get into my system
    > > using the floppy's kernel.
    > >
    >
    > Is a bootable rescue CD OK? mkrescue is part of Lilo and creates either
    > floppies or CD with "mkrescue --iso", which iso your burn with cdrecord.
    >
    > I modified mkrescue --iso, which is a script, to come up with a menu
    > that actually says which partition is going to boot, rather than "Linux".
    >
    > Booting that CD gives you the option of using the partition you ran
    > mkrescue from or what is on the MBR ("harddisk").

    dfsbuild is a Sarge package. I have not tried it, but it produces a
    grub-booting CD ISO for you to burn:

    Debian From Scratch (DFS) is a live bootable CD that is designed to
    provide a fully-featured kernel and a fully-featured rescue environment.
    The rescue environment contains filesystem tools, editors, C development
    environment, etc.

    Chris. 

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