On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:35:15PM -0400, Daniel Whelan wrote: > OK folks...it looks like I've got myself a bit of a problem. Suffice to say, > the libc.so.6 on one of my boxes got wiped out. Unfortunately, I'm nowhere > near the box, and only have a semi-computer-literate "remote hands" at the > location, without any boot disks (well, there was one, but it doesn't boot > anymore). So, I figure the best solution is to make some sort of boot disk > with just enough to boot up, mount the filesystem, and either copy libc.so.6 > from a floppy or download it from a machine. Then I could walk him through > creating a floppy from a disk image, and all would be well. Any suggestions > on this?
maybe look at Tom's Root/Boot, and make a custom floppy that boots, configures the network interfaces, mounts the / filesystem on your disk, copies the file back (or tftp's it if space is a problem) then halts the system. that way you could just tell your assistent to just stick the floppy in boot the machine up and wait for it to shutdown again. then pull out the floppy and reboot. note i have never used Tom's Root/Boot so im not sure how much work is involved for this.. you could probably make your own too, just use a minimal kernel designed for your system and setup syslinux to boot it into a custom shell script instead of init (will that work?) trying to explain shell commands to your helper would probably not be a good idea though might make things worse... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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