[5887] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Sun Nov 24 19:52:08 1996
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:49:24 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961124223106.00672960@zai.com> from "David Lerner" at Nov 24, 96 05:31:06 pm
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> Yes, the boot.img disk can be used exactly as you describe. Just choose
> upgrade, identify the root partition, and let the install script select the
> packages for upgrading. At that point you can press Alt-F2 and you will find
> the root file system under /mnt. You will need access to the install phase 2
Just my two cents:
I personally don't think the redhat boot.img is suited for this. One
of the drawbacks of the boot.img (as far as I see it) is the 'only use
it for install' thing (it puts you right into the install script) and
(more importantly) devices in /dev are created on a 'need' basis rather
than having all of them there for use. This makes it inconvenient to handle
other partitions. In my experience, /dev/hdc* was not there, and I needed
(for some reason or other) to get to my other, older Linux partition on
that drive.
For these reasons, I feel you're better suited to a more traditional
rescue diskette.
> Dave
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