rescue floppies

i'll take your advice and have rescue floppies at the ready.

it has been a very long time, since potato, since i have used rescue disks.

can i make them from my machine? i don't have a cdrom connected to this machine so i need floppies.

i found images on the debian site but they were for woody ... i am running sarge.

suggestions?

• martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:

> also sprach harland christofferson
> <debian-user@audubonstrings.com> [2007.09.19.0405
> +0100]:
> > okay, this is what i have done:
> >
> > # umount /dev/hdc8
> > # mdadm /dev/md4 --fail /dev/hdc8
> > # mdadm /dev/md4 --remove /dev/hdc8
> > # mdadm /dev/md4 --add /dev/hdc8
> >
> > cat-ed /proc/mdstat and see that it is resynching
> ...
> > good news.
> >
> > now, part two of your suggestion ... unmounting
> > /dev/hdaX partitions, editing fstab, and
> remounting.
> >
> > won't this cause my system to go belly up?
>
> You need to do this from a rescue disk. I recommend
> grml.
>
> Even though the above procedure *does* restore your
> RAID and you
> change /etc/fstab such that on next boot, /dev/mdX
> would be mounted
> instead of /dev/hdaX, between the --add and the
> reboot, something
> will write to /dev/hdaX and you're back to where you
> started from.
>
> If you don't have a rescue disk, here's one way
> which would probably
> also work, but I can't guarantee it.
>
> back up the important files
> change /etc/fstab accordingly
> fail and remove /dev/hdcX from all arrays
> call mdadm --zero-superblock on all /dev/hdcX
> partitions
> reboot
> readd all /dev/hdcX partitions to the appropriate
> arrays
>
> --
> .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
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>
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>

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