When I'm all done..

[Mark]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold at buddydog.org>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: When I'm all done..


> Mark wrote:
>
> > For a small 'emergency' disk, I'd like to remove those directories,
after
> > the 4.9R install has fully completed. Can it be safely done? Or is
anything
> > needed, at runtime, from those directories?
>
> You have a couple of options for creating small "emergency" disks:
>
> 1] The "Live" CD is precisely for that - booting from in an emergency.
>
> 2] See the following entries on my blog for links to small distros:

Thanks. I use the emergency disk for calamities, such as require a
root-partition restore. Having a handy live-CD to do that would not hurt
either. :) Whenever I boot from the install CD's, they always seem to use my
existing partitions (which makes a root-partition restore impossible).

- Mark