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Re: Disaster disks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Mon Nov 25 04:38:00 1996

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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 25 Nov 1996 10:09:36 +0100
In-Reply-To: "Kenneth G. Kay"'s message of Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:58:13 +0200 (IST)
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"Kenneth G. Kay" <kay@kay.ch.biu.ac.il> writes:

> 	Can't the installation boot disk (boot.img) in combination with
> the CD-ROM or the supp.img disk, be used as a rescue disk? 

Yup, but start it with a boot argument:

I.e. type

linux root=/your/root/here

at the lilo prompt.

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