Re: how to make boot floppy/rescue disk

[Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com>]

"Hanigan Family" <hanfam sprynet com> writes:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SBTM <sallawa entropy uark edu>
> To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
> Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:27 AM
> .
> >
> >PS: forgot to mention, my boot floppy don't work! 
> >.
> Hi
> Did you make it as part of rh 6 install, because mine
> was also bad and I figured it was a bad floppy.
> Incidently What should you add to a boot floppy
> to make it a good rescue disk .
>                        Linda

I've made several boot floppies with 6.0 ... all worked.

The recue technique requires two floppies  1) boot  1)rescue

You make the rescue floppy from the "*/images/rescue.img" on the CD or
from a Redhat mirror.  There is a text on CD that explains how it is
done called "rescue.txt"  I forgot exactly where it is but close to
top level of the CD.  Basically:

dd if=rescue.img of=/dev/fd0  (with floppy drive unmounted)

After making the rescue floppy:

Boot with boot floppy
At the boot prompt type "rescue" then hit enter.
You will be prompted when to insert the rescue disk.