On 22 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Aside from that, I think the best we can hope for is an "expanded > rescue" situation, i.e., an optional two- or three- floppy rescue > image, or (Corel is working on this) a rescue system bootable from a > CD or other media.
I've already done it. My 'rescue' CD is an image of a working Debian system (including X, ftp server, emacs, vi, and anything else I want to put on a 600 meg system), that boots from either a floppy or the CD. The scripts that I've used to create it are at: http://www.ocslink.com/~blunier Mark Blunier