From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pascal Schmidt <pleasure.and.pain@web.de>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdutils.
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:23:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF1B997.5030908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111140119580.1217-100000@neptune.sol.net>
Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
>
>>Without a floppy-based rescue system, you have to use bootable CDROM,
>>usually supplied by a vendor, without the tools to truly rescue a
>>system. You can only re-install. For instance some vendors don't
>>provide a SCSI-tape module so you can't recover from a SCSI tape.
>>
>
> There are a few minimalistic distributions that can be burned onto CDROM
> for rescue operations. Just add your favourite kernel with all your
> required drivers and you are ready to go.
>
> Shameless plug: I use my own distribtion
> http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux/
> for the same purpose. ;)
>
And some not-so-minimalistic systems... you can fit an awful lot on a CD.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-14 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 9:11 fdutils Rajiv Malik
2001-11-13 16:44 ` fdutils Keith Owens
2001-11-15 22:51 ` fdutils Kai Henningsen
2001-11-13 18:28 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 19:42 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 19:57 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 20:12 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 20:42 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 20:52 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 21:02 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 21:45 ` fdutils Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-14 0:22 ` fdutils Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-14 0:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-11-14 0:37 ` fdutils Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-14 0:50 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-14 1:30 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-14 1:35 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-15 0:40 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-15 0:51 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-15 1:09 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-15 6:23 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-15 1:15 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-14 2:20 ` fdutils Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-11-14 2:18 ` fdutils. (Was Re: [Q] pivot_root and initrd) Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-11-14 12:18 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 22:03 ` fdutils Gerhard Mack
2001-11-14 12:20 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-14 15:25 ` fdutils Gerhard Mack
2001-11-14 13:08 ` fdutils Horst von Brand
2001-11-14 14:01 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-16 10:26 fdutils Rajiv Malik
2001-11-13 7:35 fdutils Rajiv Malik
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