Re: Rescue Disks

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@pdragon.inetsolve.com>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Richard Ingram wrote:

RI> I have been upgrading Xfree but something obviously went wrong as when I
RI> boot up now it hangs at the starting Xfontserver startup and does not even
RI> get to the login prompt. Before I blat over and reinstall debian is there an
RI> easy way of creating a set of rescue disks ? I just need to edit a startup
RI> file on my root disk. My system is booted from floppy and mounts the SCSI
RI> disc. At work we have a Debian system so if anyone knows of a shell script
RI> somwhere that I could use to create my file system on floppy that would be
RI> greatly appreciated (I know I could hack one up but we are flat out at
RI> work), if not it will only take an hour or so to reinstall :-(

You could use the original boot floppy from the debian installation and instead
answering the 1st question [i think it's about the type of keyboard what you
have] you can go down the menu skipping all the configuration choices, and run
the ash shell, then mount the drive what you have problem with to some
subdirectory on a ramdisk and fix the problem. You will need rawrite from
ftp.debian.org/debian/tools to create the boot floppy in dos/windows and some
of the files from ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current,
i'm sorry but i don't remember which one you will need, but there should be
README file in the same directory. in the README file should be instructions
how to create the install floppy/floppies. all this shouldn't take more than
some 15-20 minutes :)

                                                Dingo.


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