Begin3 Title: RIP Version: 56 Entered-date: 27JUN2003 Description: Small linux system for the purpose of system booting or repairing, a boot/rescue system. You can put this system on a cd disk and boot it. It can also be booted from a DOS/Win9x system. For example if your cd drive is e. C:\ e: E:\ rip rescue E:\ rip "For help!" It's more or less designed for hard drive boot/rescue/ backup/maintenance! It has raid and ethernet/cable/dsl networking support! It has large file support, you can use all the programs for files larger than 2GB! You can only have files larger than 2GB on a ext2/3, reiserfs, jfs, or xfs partition. The programs e2fsck, mke2fs, and tune2fs have ext3 filesystem support. It includes the fat16/32, ext2/3, reiserfs, and ntfs partition resizing programs 'parted, ext2resize, resize2fs, resize_reiserfs, ntfsresize'. It also includes the partition image program 'partimage' which saves partitions in the ext2, ext3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, ufs, ntfs, fat16, and fat32 formats to an image file. Only used blocks are copied to save space and increase the speed. The image file can be compressed, in gzip or bzip2 formats. It also includes the 'mc' file manager! It has support for these filesystems. ext2 ext3 hpfs iso9660 jfs minix msdos nfs ntfs reiserfs udf ufs umsdos vfat xfs The kernel is version 2.4.21, it has support for IDE and SCSI hard drives. You need at least 64MB of RAM and a 486DX CPU to boot it. Keywords: CD Boot/Rescue System! Author: robotti@godmail.com (Kent Robotti) Maintained-by: Primary-site: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip rip-56.iso.bin 9184Kb Alternate-site: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery Platforms: Linux or DOS/Win system. Copying-policy: GPL End