Changeset 1581 in MondoRescue for branches/stable/mondo/distributions/debian/README.Debian
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r1051 r1581 7 7 This is not the official Debian package of mondo but the upstream 8 8 version. Please to not report errors to the Debian Bug Tracking 9 System but to <the mailing list>. Th nak you.9 System but to <the mailing list>. Thank you. 10 10 11 11 IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT +++ IMPORTANT … … 108 108 109 109 110 Using floppy disks as rescue media111 ----------------------------------112 113 mondoarchive will offer to write a set of rescue floppies (unless the '-F'114 switch is used). These floppy disks will only work with the FAILSAFE kernel. The115 reason is that stock Debian kernels don't have the floppy driver built into the116 kernel and that the kernel is too large for one floppy with an initrd and a117 kernel image. Because of the space issue, mondoarchiv (or rather mindi) creates118 a root/boot floppy set. Because the stock kernel does not have floppy support119 compiled in a kernel panic results when trying to acces the second (the root)120 floppy.121 122 Also, building the boot/root floppy images requires that lilo is installed on123 the system. This does not mean that it actually needs to be used to boot the124 system, only that the package is installed. (Because most people won't need the125 boot/root floppies, the mindi package only suggests the lilo package.)126 127 Finally a word of caution: Floppy disks are notoriously unreliable. Dont't use128 them unless you really really have to. (A CD writer costs the same as a few129 boxes of floppy disks these days.)130 131 132 110 -- Andree Leidenfrost <aleidenf@bigpond.net.au> Sun, 8 Jan 2005 15:20:05 +1100
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