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From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx>
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To: Pascal Schmidt <pleasure.and.pain@web.de>
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Subject: Re: fdutils.
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Hi Pascal.

>>> Shameless plug: I use my own distribtion
>>>
>>> 	http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux/
>>>
>>> for the same purpose. ;)

>> And some not-so-minimalistic systems...
>> you can fit an awful lot on a CD.
>>
>> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/

> Sure, but having to mount the CDROM means the drive is inaccessible
> during a rescue operation, so no restore from CDROM or CDRW backups
> is possible. ;) Mine runs out of a 4 MB ramdisk image.

Maybe that drive is inaccessible, but what about the other drive? Many
systems have both a CD (or DVD) drive and a CD-RW as well nowadays.

Best wishes from Riley.

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