[6116] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lerner)
Mon Nov 25 22:18:06 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:46:28 -0500
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From: David Lerner <dsl@zai.com>
Cc: "Dwight Hubbard" <Dwight.Hubbard@MCI.Com>
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At 09:37 AM 11/25/96 -0600, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
>There is not a mount command on the install disk...
>
The mount command is on the CDROM. It can be found at /usr/bin in install
part 2. The entire CDROM is available under /tmp/rhimage. This creates a
usefull rescue environment when lilo has failed during an install or upgrade.
Dave
>> 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? The idea would
>>be to interrupt the actual installation/update process before any changes
>>are actually made to the hard disk, hit Alt-F2 to access the virtual console
>>with the shell prompt, mount the hard disk partition, and the make whatever
>>changes that are necessary. Aren't the tools for this available during the
>>installation?
>
> Ken
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