On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:16:23 -0800 (PST) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Question I've always had regarding Debian install: why a _rescue_ > > disk when I'm doing a virgin install? > > Seemed intuitive enough when I switched from Windows four years > ago...but that might just be because I read the instructions. (Though > someone else in the lab that morning suggested they were rescuing you > from the MS-Borg)
Well, I _did_ read the instructions, and I didn't explicitly see where the rescue disk is the boot disk. Back in the days when you regularly started the install with a floppy, other distributions (read: RH) were clear that you initially booted off the, well, _boot_ disk. Only when I remembered tomsrtbt is a rescue disk did I realize that, since (boot == rescue), that I should mentally s/rescue/boot/gc as I read the manual. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
