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Re: Disaster disks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale P. Smith)
Fri Nov 22 12:18:21 1996

From: dpsm@en.com (Dale P. Smith)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:44:22 GMT
Reply-To: dpsm@en.com
In-Reply-To: <199611212343.XAA01678@lucy.atd.ucar.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com

On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:43:02 -0700, you wrote:

>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.

Yes exactly.  I would like to see one bootable disk that had enough
tools for repairing a broken system or restoring from backup media.

I have been fiddling around with yard, but I am not quite there yet.

Dale

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