I'm looking for some kind of "rescue" boot disks for Debian. Actually I would need it for an easy of doing a restore of my tar backups. (An easy solution would be to include tar on the installation root disk, if there is enough space left--a simple tar version would be fine.)
Sometimes it's necessary to boot from disks (i.e. via ramdrive) to fix a configuration problem or to repair a filesystem. There once were a few rescue disks on sunsite that had a kernel and a gzipped root file system on a single disk, that contained a few utility programs plus their manual pages. It would be nice if could create something similar for Debian. One could use the installation boot disk and create a second "rescue" disk, that's loaded in the ramdrive. So we could get about 2880MB if we gzip it. (I saw that there is someone working on a Debian backup system. What's planned for doing a complete restore?) BTW, how is the maintainer of the boot/root disks? Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\______/ ! PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,----.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!"