From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17832 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jun 2003 23:04:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 20227 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2003 23:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3EE663F0.50906@snerk.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:04:16 -0400 From: Stewart Organization: Snerk World Enterprises User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Based Rescue CD X-Archives-Salt: 77c33389-ec1d-4156-8d89-f8e357b7c949 X-Archives-Hash: 0c5f31fa92d20bc6a67439c550e92827 Sean P. Kane wrote: > The LiveCD is generally fine for Linux rescues, but not necessarily as a > general rescue disk, although Linux is quite capable in this arena. It > may simply be that making a few changes to the current LiveCD would do > the trick. > > Writable NTFS (still can be mounted ro if preferred) > ZIP/UNZIP > Dos2unix/unix2dos > Mkfs.vfat or similar (formatting fat partitions) > Other certainly, but this is what frustrated me yesterday :-) Excellent list. The one thing I'd probably add is Samba and NFS filesystem support. I'd dropkick a nun for a decent, drop-in, bootable CD with those features. Backing up clients' data across a network when their system is unbootable is a bear of a chore; and our co-op student is sick of us stealing his machine to perform network backups. ;> If the LiveCD already supports this, I'll eat my hat. (Do I own a hat?) Ok, I'll buy a hat, then eat it. :> -- Stewart Honsberger http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ "Capitalists, by nature, organize to protect themselves. -- Geeks, by nature, resist organizaion." -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list