On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:44:19AM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > Peter Backlund wrote: > > > > What about the ~70 meg rescuecd.iso? It fits on a CD/RW, and as the name > > implies, it can be used for system recovery. > > Well, I didn't try that one, because in the past with RH, I remembered > being able to just type "linux rescue" and get a shell right away! > And the FC2 boot CD offers "rescue" as one of its options in the banner. > > Maybe you don't care that the boot CD isn't a rescue CD, but in that > case, having it offer an option that says "rescue" is perhaps not the > clearest way to communicate that. But boot.iso provides rescue functionality. It just needs stage2.img for that, which it can fetch from various sources (it can be e.g. a local CD, harddisk with .iso images, FTP/HTTP download of stage2.img from a Fedora mirror or NFS mount). Once it fetches it, it will offer you a shell prompt. Jakub
