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[Steve Holmes]

This rescue disk should work much the same way your bootdisks do for
Debian. I assume you made a boot disk for your Debian setup? If not, I'm
sorry for the assumpsion. The HOWTO's should have come with your distro; I
don't know where they are for Debian. In Slackware, they can be found in
the howto package under the F series. There is a bootdisk howto in there
that covers all of this. There's quite a bit of detail to go into and I
think it would be too much for a single e-mail. Plus I doubt I could
recall all the steps from the top of my head either. Hence I point to the
HOWTO again. Sorry for not offering specific answers here.

One brief summary I can try to give here is your boot disk should cause a
RAM disk to be built and prompt you to put in a second disk during the
boot process. Slackware does this for all their boot/root disk combos.
This second root / rescue disk gets unloaded into /dev/ram0 where the root
system actually exists for this session. If your hard disk was still
functioning, you could mount it manually and manipulate the data as
needed. Does this make it any clearer?

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Deedra Waters wrote:

>
> That helps, but I still don't understand how to do it, where to find the
> how-to, or what I'd need to get it back.
> Basically what I need to do is format my windows partision and reinstall
> because it's got a virus. once I do that I'll need a boot, or rescue disk
> to get back into linux to fix the boot menu. but I don't know how to
> create the disk with speakup built in.
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Yes, just build a boot disk like normal; that is, compile the kernel like
> > you may have done by new and place it on a disk formatted and set up for
> > booting. Then mark this to load a second floppy which would contain your
> > various utilities needed for a rescue disk set. I would look at the
> > bootdisk-howto for all the gorry details. It goes into detail as to what
> > to put on the bootdisk to make it work and how to create a rootdisk like
> > the distro folks do. You could even come up with multiple utility disks
> > for other rescue operations.
> >
> > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Deedra Waters wrote:
> >
> > > Is  there a way to make a rescue type disk with speakup built into it?
> > > I'm using debian and need to make a disk like this.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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