Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 14:15 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> A rather ignorant question, I am sure, but what exactly is the
>> point of the Rescue CD?
>
> It's a *small* downloadable bootable CD image that lets you fix up a
> broken system, amongst other uses you can put it to. If you had to
> download something new to fix up a system, because you had nothing
> else handy, this is one of the quicker options.
It's also a handy way to start a network install (if you don't know
about pxeboot or dropping the installer boot images into grub).
Basically, the rescue image is the boot.iso image plus the stage2 for
the anaconda installer.
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