Use of the Rescue System

Support knowledgebase (dstark_rescue)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: All versions

Situation

You want to use the SuSE Linux Rescue System.

Procedure

Copying system information to a floppy disk for our installation support desk is a typical application scenario for the rescue system. This proves specially useful in cases where the installation crashes from the beginning.

The 3 steps

will be explained by means of 2 examples:

Output of the commands hwinfo and fdisk -l

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
hwinfo >/mnt/info1.txt
fdisk -l >>/mnt/info1.txt
umount /mnt

The output will not be displayed on the screen, but written to the file info1.txt on the floppy disk. The output of the second command will be attached to that of the first.

File /var/log/boot.msg

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
cat /var/log/boot.msg >/mnt/info2.txt
umount /mnt

Keywords: RESCUE SYSTEM, INSTALLATION SUPPORT

Categories: Installation

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