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Re: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Corbet)
Thu Nov 21 18:51:32 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:54:30 EST."
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:43:02 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@stout.atd.ucar.edu>
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> > Does Red Hat provide a standard way of making disaster disks? I've been
> > going through some of the packages out there, and I'm just amazed at how
> > hard it is to do something that should be so simple -- and so routine.
> > Please tell me I'm missing something somewhere?
> >
> Unpack the kernel source, put a DOS formatted floppy disk in drive A:, and
> build a working kernel with the command
> make zdisk
Ah, but that only solves half the problem. Making a bootable floppy is
easy. Making one which will allow you to fix a trashed hard disk is
another story. There are all these packages which purport to make useful,
floppy-based root filesystems, but they are all a major pain to figure out
and use. Sigh.
jon
Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division
corbet@stout.atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html
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