[CALUG] bootdisk

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

I am not knocking the distribution. I am knocking the medium.

There is no reason why you can't take tomsrtbt and put it on a CD. In 
fact the tomsrtbt developers should have already figured out how to do 
this.If they haven't, then it says to me that they simply haven't been 
keeping up with the times. And that means that there are probably many 
more Rescue Tools that are available in one of the many other Rescue 
Oriented Distributions.

JIM

Stephen Anderson wrote:

>I always keep a tomsrtbt floppy. Call me "old school". I guess I like
>tomsrtbt because it has saved me so many times in the past 5 or 6
>years.
>http://www.toms.net/rb/
>I realize that there are other small distros and cd based solutions,
>but just in case ... I will keep a tomsrtbt floppy handy until there
>are no more floppy drives. :)
>Steve A.
>
>On 10/11/05, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>NO! NO! NO! Floppys are Obsolete! Grab a handful and Set Them On Fire!
>>
>>Simply boot the RH9 CD into Rescue Mode!
>>
>>        boot: linux rescue
>>
>>If you want to "attach" to your linux, you can simply type "chroot
>>/mnt/sysimage" after it finds your linux installation.
>>
>>Newer linuxi are more difficult, as the devices are probed and created
>>by the system. You have to figure out how to remount /proc and the devfs
>>filesystems, all that udev/hotplug stuff.
>>
>>JIM
>>
>>Kelly Price wrote:
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>>>On 10/10/05, Russ <rmain at polaris.umuc.edu> wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>I want to make a bootdisk.  When I installed RH9 Ih ad an option to create
>>>>an emergency bootdisk.  The system failed creating the bootdisk.  I dont
>>>>know why.  Linux was having trouble formatting or seeing the disk.  I know
>>>>the drive is good.  I use it with Windoze. I've looked online at HOWTO's.
>>>>Should I use "make zdisk"?
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>First, grab a bunch of floppies and start formatting them with
>>>"fdformat" as root.  If they're old ones, don't be suprized if you get
>>>a few duds.  If they're new, they should all format good -- otherwize,
>>>that drive has problems.
>>>
>>>Second, if you can boot off of the CD drive, forget floppies and burn
>>>yourself a copy of Damn Small Linux or Knoppix.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price
>>>http://strredwolf.furrynet.com
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