On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Hossein S. Zadeh wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Eric Wood wrote:
>
> > Thanks, but that img seems to not boot. Just hangs when it accesses the
> > floppy. I d/l other .img boot disk to see if they'd boot and they do.
> > Maybe this file is corrupt?
>
> >From personal experience I gotta tell you "RedHat rescue disks STINK to
> hell and back". They put some fuc*&%^% trickery into their rescue disks
> that makes them more trouble than their worth; for example you have to
> create approperiate devices under /dev before you can even mount your hard
> disks..... I don't know about you, but in an emergency I seem no to
> remember what major and minor numbers partition 7 on my 3rd SCSI hard disk
> has....
>
> I have been using RedHat since 3.0.3, and I have NEVER seen a RedHat
> distribution with rescue disks that work..... I always download Slackware
> rescue disks, they have NEVER failed me. For everything else I use RedHat.
>
> cheers,
> Hossein
Eh?
I just make a bootdisk with /sbin/mkbootdisk on my RH 5.2, boot with it
and type "rescue" at the lilo prompt, pop in the rescue.img disk and am
then given a shell with access to all the rescue/restoration programs I
would require. I don't recall having to make /dev.
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