images/bootdisk.img

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:16:23 +1000, Matt Hansen 
>Just another way to get the linux rescue environment without having
> to download the entire CD1?
there is more than one way? i thought rescuecd.iso was pretty much the
only 'easy' way to get the same rescue environment as found on cd1.

A lot of people like doing a net install and dont want to pull down
the full isos.
rescuecd.iso gives those people the utility of the rescue environment
without pulling down all of cd1. boot.iso is even smaller and is
useful for people who know they don't need the rescue environment. The
inclusion of rescuecd.iso as a smallish image, i would wager is going
to save a few people butts once they get into trouble after doing a
net based install. But i would also wager, no matter how much effort
we put into trying to tell people about rescuecd, they will prefer to
take the very small boot.iso image for net installs...until they get
burned by a bad config and need the rescue environment.

-jef"humanity prefers to learn the hard way"spaleta