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[russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>]

I don't remember how the" install to hard drive" works but I believe you
use the ramdisk version  to do it. There is a "go" script in there that
you can modify
to keep linux from formatting the linux partition before installing linux.
I did this myself in resqueing my system. You can do a re-install of all
the linux files on the ex2 partition to get the necessary files back where
they go without loosing any info there. I know very little about
programming.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, James Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > Day Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > What would a BL rescue system look like?
> >
> > Same as it looks now.
> >
> I disagree.  I'm in a situation right now where ramdisk BL is not
> sufficient.  At a minimum, fsck/e2fsck needs to be added for real rescue
> work.  My situation may be fairly untypical, in that I cannot access a
> floppy from my machine, nor does networking operate (unless maybe I try to
> use the serial port), but it does prove that there are cases wherein
> standard ramdisk BL2 does not suffice for system rescue.  If I manage to
> salvage this BL2 install, you can bet I'm going to add extra Linux rescue
> utils to my DOS partition so that I'll be able to access them from BL
> ramdisk.  Other BL users with old notebooks with hosed floppy drives take
> note.
>
> James
>
> PS I could always attach a serial modem and get stuff off the 'net that
> way using the included modem support and browser.  So I guess there are
> ways of doing things with ramdisk BL on this system, if somewhat
> convoluted.
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