Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 958

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• Resize partitions using the parted command. Find more information about this tool
at the Web site of GNU Parted
parted.html).
The rescue system can be loaded from various sources and locations. The simplest option
is to boot the rescue system from the original installation CD or DVD:
1 Insert the installation medium into your CD or DVD drive.
2 Reboot the system.
3 At the boot screen, choose the Rescue System option.
4 Enter root at the Rescue: prompt. A password is not required.
If your hardware setup does not include a CD or DVD drive, you can boot the rescue
system from a network source (including the SUSE FTP server). The following exam-
ple applies to a remote boot scenario—if using another boot medium, such as a floppy
disk, modify the info file accordingly and boot as you would for a normal installation.
1 Enter the configuration of your PXE boot setup and replace
2 Boot the system using Wake on LAN.
3 Enter root at the Rescue: prompt. A password is not required.
Once you have entered the rescue system, you can make use of the virtual consoles that
can be reached with Alt + F1 to Alt + F6 .
A shell and many other useful utilities, such as the mount program, are available in the
/bin directory. The sbin directory contains important file and network utilities for
reviewing and repairing the file system. This directory also contains the most important
binaries for system maintenance, such as fdisk, mkfs, mkswap, mount, mount, init, and
shutdown, and ifconfig, ip, route, and netstat for maintaining the network. The directory
/usr/bin contains the vi editor, find, less, and ssh.
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install=protocol://instsource with
rescue=protocol://instsource. As with a normal installation,
protocol stands for any of the supported network protocols (NFS, HTTP,
FTP, etc.) and instsource for the path to your network installation source.
(http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

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