Make rescue CD?

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

You can just use your redhat9 cd 1.
Right at startup, you have the option to go into rescue mode.
The thing will ask you about your language and i think, keyboard and then
basicly go in.
It even offers to mount your linux partitions where it finds a linux 
install.
However, for updating a kernel on Redhat9, just install the rpm from 
Redhat
using rpm -ihv kernel*.rpm.  It will be added and will become the default
kernel for bootup.  You can still boot with the old kernel if you like.
Regards, Willem

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Elmer E. Dow wrote:

> I'm a newbie getting ready to install a newer RH9 kernel and I'd like to
> have a rescue CD on hand in case I mess up. My IBM R40 laptop (dual boot
> WinXP and RH9) has no floppy drive, so I need to make a rescue CD.
> 
> According to RedHat's documentation, once I do manage to get into rescue
> mode, the rescue image location "must contain a valid installation tree, and
> the installation tree must be for the same version of Red Hat Linux as the
> Red Hat Linux CD-ROM #1 from which you booted. If you used a boot CD-ROM or
> diskette to start rescue mode, the installation tree must be from the same
> tree from which the media was created."
> 
> I installed RH9 off a college's network, so my present version (2.4.20-20.9)
> doesn't match CD #1 (2.4.20) in my boxed set. Now I'm going to try an even
> newer kernel (2.4.20-31.9 -- which I hope may remedy another problem) which
> also won't match the CD #1 or the boot CD that I made.
> 
> So how do I make a rescue CD that matches my version and will really work?
> 
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