Rescue and Installation (was Re: VI reasons)
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I believe the right solution would be to design a separate, true, rescue
> disk (what we now call the rescue disk is, in fact, the installation boot
> disk) that has none of the installation software installed, but simply
> boots into a single user shell with an appropriate set of tools, like vi,
> fdisk, dd, ... so that the exprienced sys admin (or consultant) can come
> in and recover broken systems. This is fundamentally a different job from
> system installation. (in fact if the system installation is perfect you
> need no additional tools at all ;-)
Exactly! System "rescue" is fundamentally different from
"installation". It is logical and expedient to seperate the two functions.
-steve
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