Re: [SLUG] linux floppy disk

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter30@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 21:45:19 EDT


--- Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Not "very special", just not a "kitchen-sink" kernel that comes with the
> distros. Here's mine:
>
> 780K /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.29
>
Thats cool. How do I get one of these. Can I use it to setup partitions?

> Some rescue sets use busybox, which rolls lots of programs into one,
> combining the common parts and leaving out some less-common options.
>
> > Any reason to not try doing it with a rescue CD-ROM
>
> I interpreted it as "there's no CD drive on that machine", but yeah, if the
> machine will boot from CD, that's almost always better.
>
> > or temporarily put the new drive in a working computer?
> > Which is how I always do it.
>
busybox? What is that?
william

                
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