Description of Problem: the bootable CD seawolf-i386-disc1 may be booted in rescue mode to recover a damaged system. my disaster recovery plan involves nightly dump's of all file systems to tape. i have placed a .recover.d directory in the first file system (/) that contains scripts that can be invoked to perform a complete recovery from the tape image. this includes partitioning the disk creating the file systems restore'ing the file systems lilo'ing the disk the intent is to boot off the rescue CD, restore the .recover.d directory and execute the recover script found there. unfortunately, the rescue CD does not include the restore program! it is part of the dump rpm but this rpm is on disc2 and i can't umount disc1 to get it. my only work around is to get it from another linux box by network or floppy. rcp work ok but ftp does not. once i have restore i can get everything else i need from .recover.d. note: i have put lilo and sfdisk in my .recover.d because they are also not on the rescue CD. the rescue disc1 should have /sbin/restore it would be nice if the rescue disc also had sfdisk and lilo. it would be nice if the ftp client on the rescue disk worked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.1 seawolf-i386-disc1 How Reproducible: see above Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Marking as a request for enhancement.
the cd should also have the scsi tape module suitable for this kernel so that a local tape drive might be used. i have found that a copy of the st.o module from /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/scsi/st.o will not work with the kernel on the install cd (unresolved references). without this module a local tape drive cannot be used for disaster recovery. the only way to read a tape, in this case, is to read it across the network.
Related to bug 3383.
Will consider for future release.
Deferred to future release.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.