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Medicine for a Sick Linux Box
Squidgee writes "This is the site for "LIAP: Linux In A Pillbox". It is an interesting recovery distro made in the vein of pharmaceuticals; each floppy based 'minidistro' cures one specific Linux ailment. Or, as Luke Komasta (The creator of LIAP) puts it: "My Linux project contains "pills". Each of them is good for one disease, but it doesn't work good enough for another. When you know what you need a Linux for, you may choose a good pill. And of course, as you know, there is no drug which is good for treating all diseases." It's an extremely interesting approach to Linux recovery, and one that appears to be more effective than the other varieties of floppy/mini-cd based recovery systems. Worth downloading in case you ever need it!"
put all of them into a CD, which is bootable with isolinux and each remedy (that is the pills) is a root file system to mount - easier to use, faster, isn't it. i think that almost all recent years (5 years old computers) are ok with bootable CDs.
It's a new approach at building those emergency boot disks, so that you get exactly what you need/want. I dont' care what you can fit on two floppies; there will be times when you don't have what you need. This tries to address that problem in a rather interesting(if not terribly intuitive) way.
put the what in the where?
Personally I prefer SuperRescue http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/ for system recovery, works remarkably well on a system with a CD-ROM. Give it a shot :)
Tell me if I'm imagining unlikely things, but for those of us for whom linux is still mostly a mystery, how about a diagnostic that checks to see what's wrong, then applies the right "pill(s)" ??
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s ! 127.0.0.1 -j DROP
or possibly
echo "please upgrade my connection to an OC3 immediately and bill to uberadmin@slashdot.org" | mail -s "SOS!" admin@$isp