RescueCD - what is this for?

[François Patte]

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David Timms a écrit :
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> so I burned a Fedora-7 rescueCD and tried that,
>> but it seems I was then supposed to insert the system DVD.
>
> I forget how you get it to the rescue environment, but it is something
> like:
> - edit the cd's boot command to be: linux rescue, hit enter
> - wait for anaconda to load in rescue mode.
> - answer Q on keyboard.
> - answer question do you want to activate network and so-on
> - environment tries to find the installed fedora system on the hard disk.
> - answer mount|read only| dont mount
> - if you mount it you can:
>   - vi /mnt/sysimage/etc/whatever to fix your problem

Unfortunately it is useless in some cases: I recently made a mistake
writing an entry in fstab and the system did not boot... I came to
rescue disk, but it was unable to mount proporly the system on
/mnt/sysimage and vi was not working because of lack of shared
libraries.... I had to use ed!

WISH: could the rescuecd have a static linked version of vi?

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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