Re: [Sheflug] boot disk

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> > Does anyone know were I can download a linux boot disk/image to enable me to
> > boot to a shell and mount drives and fix stuff etc. Cheers KevinB
> 
> 	Most distros come with a rescue image in the CD somewhere. 

Yep, the SuSE ones always work well for me.

> 	I have not used tomsXXXX (can't remember what the XXX stands
> for),

tomsrtbt - Tom's Root Boot, I believe.

When messing with these things, you find you need some special /dev/
nodes, to gain 1.8Mb access to the floppy drive. It's not especially easy,
but that said, it's *always* worth having boot disks lying about.

Cheers,

Alex.

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