<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Rescue packages</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Resources and pointers" HREF="a1376.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Pre-made Bootdisks" HREF="premade.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="LILO -- the Linux loader" HREF="x1429.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="premade.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >A. Resources and pointers</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1429.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1422" >A.2. Rescue packages</A ></H1 ><P > Several packages for creating rescue disks are available on www.ibiblio.org. With these packages you specify a set of files for inclusion and the software automates (to varying degrees) the creation of a bootdisk. See <A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html" TARGET="_top" ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html</TT ></A > for more information. <EM >Check the file dates carefully</EM >. Some of these packages have not been updated in several years and will not support the creation of a compressed root filesystem loaded into ramdisk. To the best of our knowledge, <A HREF="http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcett/yard/index.html" TARGET="_top" >Yard</A > is the only package that will.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="premade.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1429.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Pre-made Bootdisks</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="a1376.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >LILO -- the Linux loader</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >