LinuxRescueDisks
From coLinux
These Rescue Disks are all based on exiting Linux Rescue Disk or Mini Distributions.
The goal here is to provide a list of out-of-the-box Distributions that can be used as small FileSystem Disk Files for coLinux.
These FileSystem Disk Files can then be used to install or setup a full-scale Linux Distribution.
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[edit] Mandrake Rescue Disk
Copy the file \Mandrake\base\rescue_stage2.bz2 from Mandrake's 10.0 Community CD Disk 1 to coLinux FileSystem folder. Decompress it and use it as a regular co Linux FileSystem Disk File (approx. 25 MB). Example /dev/cobd1.
<Gniarf> nice find. you can find this 'rescue' distribution on most Mandrake mirrors like this one.
You get perl, rpm packages support and - important - loadkeys support (usable in coLinux snapshots past 040619). some partition tools are irrelevant, as usual. There seem to be some minimal network support, which makes sense, since this distribution can do net-install. ifconfig, route, telnet, ftp commands are there.
[edit] SuSE 9.1 Rescue Disk
A bit bigger, about 16 Mb gziped, 48 Mb uncompressed. find it on a SuSE mirror like this one and gzip -d it BEFORE you complain you can't use it. yes, the .gz extension is missing.
some network support too, ssh is there, rsync too, not ftp, no perl. looks like those rescue disks are tailored for specific distribution uses.
[edit] Fedora Core 2
77 Mb in .iso format., mirror here, extract the file stage2.img any way you want and mount it as cramfs (hint: modules)
create needed /dev/cob devices as described there: LinuxCOBD, so you can mount other filesystem images.
quick setup of the network (for 192.168.0.40 as the coLinux ip) :
- ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
- ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.40
- route add default gateway 192.168.0.1
then ping outside to test it
(the longer way, if you know what you are doing, not tested :
- ifconfig eth0 inet down
- ifconfig eth0 inet up 192.168.0.40 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 192.168.255.255
- route add netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.1 dev eth0
- ifconfig eth0 inet up
)
[edit] Busybox-based Rescue Disk
a much smaller distribution that still allows for editing files and mounting other file systems : full description here
MassTranslated on 25 Dec 2004.
MassTranslated on Sun Apr 23 17:36:25 UTC 2006
