[5964] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.W.Tych)
Mon Nov 25 05:06:44 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:58:02 +0000
From: "Dr.W.Tych" <w.tych@lancaster.ac.uk>
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David E. Fox wrote:
> 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.
Absolutely ! It does not have ftape devices either, so a restore job
is impossible.
After all EVEN Windows95 provide you with a rescue diskette :-)
... or are we saying that Linux is _so_ stable we do not need one ?
My plea to the RedHat developers for a decent rescue disk is still on.
Wlodek
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