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Re: emergency shutdown?



Simon,

rescue.bin is the size of an *unformatted* floppy.

-Tech

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon R Tod wrote:

> That should be perfectly straightforward... but while a floppy has
> 1457664 bytes on it, rescue.bin is 1474560 bytes, so won't fit! The
> rescue.bin file on http://..../images-1.20/ will fit on a standard
> floopy, but how does this differ from the /images-1.44/ version?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Jason Wood wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > You can download a linux rescue disk from debian.
> >
> > Take a look in here :
> >
> > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
> >
> > Download rescue.bin and then, if your on windows, use rawrite2 to put it onto
> > a floppy. DON'T just copy the file onto the disk or it won't work.
> >
> > You can download rawrite2 if you look in :
> >
> > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/dosutils/
> >
>
> > Have fun...
> >
> > Jason Wood
>
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