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Re: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wojtek Pilorz)
Wed Nov 27 08:22:53 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:22:50 +0100 (MET)
From: Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz@celebris.bdk.lublin.pl>
To: "Kenneth G. Kay" <kay@kay.ch.biu.ac.il>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611271006.MAA01538@kay.ch.biu.ac.il>
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Kenneth G. Kay wrote:
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:06:45 +0200 (IST)
> From: Kenneth G. Kay <kay@kay.ch.biu.ac.il>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Disaster disks?
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Dr.W.Tych wrote:
> >
> > For those for us who have DOS installed of their machines (including me,
> > no flames please), what about rescue UMSDOS system?
> > Might be easier to maintain/use/more flexible than diskette-only
> > disaster disk??
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Wojtek Pilorz
> > Wojtek.Pilorz@bdk.lublin.pl
> >
>
> I, for one, have a small umsdos system, left over from my Slackware
> days, installed on a second hard disk. I still use it now and then to hold
> backups of critical files. On one occasion, I had to boot from it in order
> to repair my RH4 filesystem, so a umsdos system definitely can be used
> for rescue purposes. Still, I'm not sure that it's really better than
> a second native Linux system would be.
>
> Ken
Not better, but for some users it might be just easier to save/restore
such setup; e.g. if a group of users in a LAN with Novell Netware
have DOS on disks; they can just share a UMSDOS tree compressed with zip
on a network Netware server rather than keeping a separate rescue
partition on each local disk.
If something bad happens to anyone's Linux, he/she could copy rescue
UMSDOS tree to the DOS partition, and start Linux from there to correct
things.
>
> --
> Kenneth G. Kay E-mail: kay@kay.ch.biu.ac.il
> Department of Chemistry kay@gefen.cc.biu.ac.il
> Bar-Ilan University Phone : +972-3-5318720
> Ramat-Gan, Israel 52900 Fax : +972-3-5351250
>
Wojtek
wpilorz@bdk.lublin.pl
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