[PLUG] rescue disks on cd

[<mg@infinity.stf.org>]

	So tonight I was messing around with the slackware rc scripts and I did
something that left the machine unbootable. I needed a rescue disk so I
could get back into those files and undue the damage I had
done. Unfortunately, the floppy drive on this box is out of service at the
moment. I was able to borrow another one though to fix the problem, but it
got me to thinking. Do bootable rescue cds exist out there? I know that
the installation cd's for some distros are bootable. I downloaded and
burned a redhat iso to cd and booted from that, even was able to get to a
shell prompt from it. However, as soon as I mounted my linux partition,
weird things happened (e.g. 'ls' stopped working). Also, it lacked any
text editors so I really wouldn't consider it much of a rescue disk. 

	So what have you guys seen around? How would one go about
making a bootable linux cd with some basic utilities on it? I know there's
the Bootdisk-HOWTO out there which I, admittedly, only gave a quick once
over. It seems, understandbly, mostly floppy boot disk centered. How
different would the process be when you s/floppy/cd/? 

mg


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