Creating Suse Boot Cd

[jodef]

My system does not have a floppy drive but I would like to create a rescue CD in case of an emergency. I notice there is a way to create a boot floppy but nothing about a boot cd. How would I go about creating one?

Thx.

[Choozo]

Your install CD1 is usually a 'rescue CD' too. Just boot off that CD and select 'rescue' from the bootprompt.

[Uranus]

If you really feel like doing some research, learning stuff and creating an optimized rescue CD for your system, do a search on the forum and on G4L. There are lots of howto's on creating bootable iso CD's.
Sam

[jodef]

Originally posted by Choozo
Your install CD1 is usually a 'rescue CD' too. Just boot off that CD and select 'rescue' from the bootprompt.

In the case of a system unable to boot how do I proceed at the rescue prompt?

I tried help none of the commands seem relevant.The documentation talks about auto repair, manual repair etc but saw no reference to any of these from the rescue prompt?

[frimann]

For suse 9.1 and 9.2 (you did not say what verison you had)
you just put in cd 1 or the dvd, chose installation - chose your language and then it comes to installation mode: there you can choose between: 1 new installation
2 update a existing system
3 repair installed system
4 boot installed system

So you choose "3"

(i know it is a bit confusing to have to start a install to go to rescue mode),
Suses rescue system is the best one out there for a "newbee" that i am avere of its automatic repair goes over:
partition tables
swap partitions
file systems
entries in - /etc/fstab
boot loader configuration
package database

all this information is in the suse administration guide, so if you did a ftp install and do not have it im sure you can download it at suse.com