
BRD - Brunnis Rescue Diskset
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I'm distributing my private rescue-diskset because of it's unique
dialin-support. Test all functions you need *before* relying on this one !
Suggestions/bug-reports to brd@netestate.de. Author is Michael Brunnbauer
(brunni@netestate.de).

3 disks containing:

-Dialin via modem/ISDN (hisax,mgetty) for remote-rescue. rz/sz included.
-Precompiled generic 2.0.36 kernel with all SCSI/network-cards as module
-Complete kernel-documentation
-Manpages
-pico editor
-Basic networking (ifconfig,route,ftp)
-All you need to repair your system (hopefully :)

Versions
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kernel          2.0.36
ISDN            9902051200
libc            5.4.33
libdl           1.9.6
ld-linux        1.9.6
init            2.76
bash            2.00.0(1)
e2fsprogs       1.10
fdisk           2.9
insmod          2.0.0
rz/sz           0.12a
mgetty          1.0.0 
mt              2.4.2
pico            3.4   
tar             1.11.8

Installation
============

build-requirements: 3-4 floppy-disks and a working 4096K-ramdisk
boot-requirements: 16MB RAM

Just type ./build and follow the instructions. If you don't want to make a
"special bootdisk" with your actual kernel (should contain floppy+ramdisk
driver), press CTRL-C when the script prompts for the path to your kernel.

Dialin-support with the "special bootdisk" probably won't work for ISDN.

Adjusting
=========

You can replace the binarys,libs and manpages with your ones by calling:

./gen_update > update
less update
chmod +x update
./update

You should review the generated script before executing it. There's a good
chance that the rescue-system won't work any more after calling update so
you should be an experienced admin. If the system gets too big, start deleting
files/rearranging.

If you want to make a new kernelimage, use utildisk/KERNELCONFIG as starting
point. Don't forget to copy the new modules but don't strip them ! Also don't
forget to rdev -R kernelimage 1

Notes
=====

This set has an EMPTY ROOT PASSWORD. Consider this before enabling dialin.

You will notice the line:

mactrust (c) 1997 by netEstate (http://www.netestate.de/)

while booting the generic kernel. This is a patch we use in our kernels
to assign MAC-addresses to IP-addresses (packets with wrong MACs get dropped).
As this driver is not initialized with a table, it will have no effect.
