Re: rescue disk

From: Wayne Topa (brittman_at_capital.net)
Date: 11/30/04

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    George Iordanou(iordanou@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
    > Thanks a lot for your help.
    >
    >
    > > if you have a bootable disk with chroot, you can run the mkrescue (or
    > > maybe mkboot for a bootdisk). I usually use knoppix.
    > Unfortunately i haven't exactly understood the procedure. Do i need
    > knoppix? I have the installation cd of sarge.
    >
    <----- snip ----->
    > What is mkrescue?
    >
    > Excuse me, i'm very confused and i'm trying to understand the
    > procedure so that i fix the problem. Thanks a lot for your feedback

    $ which mkrescue
    /usr/sbin/mkrescue

    $ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/mkrescue
    lilo: /usr/sbin/mkrescue

    $man mkrescue
    MKRESCUE(8)

    NAME
           mkrescue - make rescue floppy

    SYNOPSIS
           /usr/sbin/mkrescue - make a bootable rescue floppy or CD using the
            default kernel specified in lilo.conf.

    HTH=Hope This Helps, YMMV=Your Mileage May Vary, HAND=Have A Nice Day

    WTT 

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