On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:22:19AM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 00:27, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > > Is there a "rescue floppy" for Sarge? > > grub-disk > --------- > GRUB bootable disk image > This package contains a GRUB rescue disk. It consists of a bootable > 1.44 floppy image you can use to grab a rescue disk or be run in an > i386 emulator, like Bochs. > > dfsbuild > -------- > is a Sarge package. I have not tried it, but it produces a > grub-booting CD ISO for you to burn: > > Debian From Scratch (DFS) is a live bootable CD that is designed to > provide a fully-featured kernel and a fully-featured rescue environment. > The rescue environment contains filesystem tools, editors, C development > environment, etc.
You could also try DSM... Damn Small Linux it is only a 50 Mb download compared to about 350 Mb for Debian from Scratch. It boots from CD, or you can also make a floppy boot disk if the computer won't boot from CD. It can be run in RAM or installed to a hdd. It has a very nice GUI desktop and has the ability to make an internet connection very easily. Its got firefox and dillo browsers, editors, word processor, spread sheet program, networking tools, sylpheed email, various other bits and bobs and even a game and some toys ! For a 50Mb 'distro' it is a very nice piece of work and was designed to fit on a small business card sized CD so you could carry a handy Linux system in your shirt pocket ! If installed to hdd you could then enable apt and download and install further Debian packages if you wanted. Not only a functional and nice looking mini workstation it can also be used as a rescue disk to get back into a faulty system. All that in only 50Mb ! Regards' Reg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
