[5933] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lerner)
Sun Nov 24 23:45:33 1996
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:44:27 -0500
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From: David Lerner <dsl@zai.com>
Cc: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
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At 03:49 PM 11/24/96 -0800, David Fox wrote:
>
>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.
>
A traditional set of rescue disks is certainly better than using boot.img.
However, it may be necessary to fix a problem with the install before you
have a chance to build the rescue disks.
It is possible to get around the lack of devices in the install /dev
directory by using the devides in the root dev directory. Thus you can mount
a dos disk with:
mount /mnt/dev/hda1 -tmsdos /mnt/dosc
to mount a dos partition that is norlally reached with /dev/hda1 at a mount
point that is normally /dosc.
Dave
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