On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:16 +1000, Matt Hansen wrote:
Any reason why there's no description for the
"rescuecd.iso" in that
README? boot.iso and diskboot.img are mentioned, what about
rescuecd.iso?
Because it's not present always. It's not put onto the actual CDs as
the space trade-off (you already have the data) isn't really worth it.
I'd actually rather get rescuecd.img into the iso directory, since it
makes more sense there in a lot of ways.
I for one had an obvious idea that it was for a "rescue
cd" but wasn't completely sure 'till I loopback mounted it to inspect
its contents.. BTW, what's the difference between this ISO and "linux
rescue" at a boot: prompt? I.e. what is the purpose of providing this
ISO? Just another way to get the linux rescue environment without having
to download the entire CD1?
Yep, basically. It can also be used for kicking off a network install
if you boot with 'linux' instead of just hitting enter. This is good
for graphical FTP/HTTP installs on machines with less RAM as you don't
have to pull the 70 meg second stage into RAM and can instead use the
copy on the CD.
Jeremy