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Yard - Scripts for creating rescue disks

Yard is a suite of Perl scripts for creating rescue disks for GNU/Linux. A rescue disk is a self-contained kernel and filesystem on a floppy, usually used when you can't (or don't want to) boot off your hard disk, that contains utilities for diagnosing and manipulating hard disks and filesystems. Yard itself is not a rescue disk or boot disk; it is a tool for creating one. The user must do a certain amount of file choosing to make it work, but the result is a customized rescue disk that is complete, useful, and up-to-date.

Yard does not use special, minimal files to make everything fit in a small filesystem. Instead, it uses standard files from your hard disk installation, so you can use as many diskettes as you need (usually 2-3, since everything is compressed)

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/yard/
Source tarballhttp://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/yard/yard-2.2.tar.gz
Version 2.2 (stable) released on 2001-06-20
Licensed under Perl.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide available from http://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/yard/Yard_doc.html and included in the distribution
Support contacts

Help List<fawcett@croftj.net>
Developer List<fawcett@croftj.net>
Bug List<fawcett@croftj.net>

Project contacts

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Developers
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Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesPerl
Use requirementsPerl 5.0 or later, Linux kernel 2.0 or later
Weak prerequisitesobjcopy 2.6 or later

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-06-20
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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