text_combined: ronan cunniffe ronancunniffenet quoting niall broin im installing warm standby disks number boxes disks size sometimes bigger main disk idea every night ill rsync partitions main disk standby disk case disaster first port call tapes standby disk consider running linux md raid disks raid gives protection slips finger get beaten round head saying floppy assuming machines networked let one send copy kernel others drives opentheboxandswitchcables start dding floppy start drives drawers might slow 60 seconds alternatively could use netboot im serious set boot sequence first hard disk network make partition standby active look etherboot package one things contains pascalish language writing boot menus write oneliner basically says boot devhda1 whatever theres example code iirc resulting bootable image whopping 4k downside youll need bootp tftp server somewhere hth ronan irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie tue 30 jul 2002 193520 0100 ilug installing lilo another disk