Re: rescue disk set
> Last night, my aging micropolis 1.5 gig drive decided to scramble itself.
> "Self," I think, "Just boot up off the boot and root disks, and fsck the
> root partition back into order." A noble thought, but to my utter dismay,
> I found out that the boot/root set doesn *not* have fsck on it! Does
> anyone have a rescue-type boot set that can be incorporated into
> the Debian distribution? I actually had to install the base floppy
> set onto a little used partition on another drive, and then boot
> off that to get fsck. Found that the root inode is gone due to sectors
> 0,1,2, and 3 being NFG.. time to re-lowlevel and pray...
I was just thinking the same the other day. I have some scripts that
created a 3-disk set (boot, root, & utils) to do just this, but they
were from when I originally installed Debian 0.93 and I'm _sure_ they
would die by the 3rd line, now.
Between the root & utils disk, I had tar, gzip, fsck, tcsh (yes, I like
my csh), mke2fs, and all the useful stuff with libs I could cram on 2 disks.
I would be happy to provide them if anyone wants to undertake such a
responsibility. They need work to convert them for use with shared
libs to make sure all necessary shared libs also got copied to disk.
I'd have to say, though, that this ties quite closely with building base
disks and would probably be best for that maintainer to take over.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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