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Yard Documentation

Tom Fawcett ( fawcett@croftj.net)

November, 1998

Yard is a suite of Perl programs for making customized rescue disks for Linux. It exploits the compressed ramdisk feature of 1.3.48+ kernels. With this feature you can get a standard kernel image plus about 2.4 meg of utilities on a single floppy. You specify the set of files you want on the disk, and Yard does extensive checking of the files to increase chances that the rescue disk will work. A 2-disk option is available if one isn't enough. Yard can now be used either with or without Lilo.

1. Introduction

2. Requirements

3. Installation

4. Using Yard -- summary instructions

5. Using Yard -- detailed instructions

6. Troubleshooting

7. Known bugs and limitations

8. To be done

9. Getting the latest copy of Yard

10. Thanks, acknowledgements and theft

Appendix

11. Other information

12. Format of Bootdisk_Contents

13. Options for Config.pl

14. Using a loopback device

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