On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:34:38PM +0200, goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de wrote: > > I already know how I plan to do it without resorting to one of the > > micro distributions. => I just haven't decided yet whether anybody > > else wants it enough to make it worth trying to write a better > > initrd that is more generic. I've got it working now with my zip > > disk though. > > If you get it to work with the zip disk mounted readonly, so that it > would also work from a CDrom, then its worth the effort. I hope that anything I may do with it will eventually lead to wider availability of a live filesystem for people who want to check out Debian or something without a huge committment in terms of diskspace, but that's a different animal than this rescue package all together. > Currently when I need a rescue system for some reason, I install base > to the swap partition and work from that. Its great, but nowadays I > tend to not have a swap partition, so that option is not allways > possible. :) I've done this as well---for this reason I will ALWAYS leave at least 100 megs available for swap, no matter how much memory I have around. => They are just far too useful as scratch partitions to give up ! > If you keep going with your ideas, please include raid support (mdrun, > mdadd and kernel modules). At this point I'm looking more towards the idea of BYOK (Bring Your Own Kernel) -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Knghtbrd> Leave it to manoj to call procmail "puny"
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