expert exit for IPcop setup? (was: Re: [IPCop-user] disk with bad blocks (and installing IPCop as dual-boot))

[Rainer Z. <Use...@zo...>]

kaz...@um...(Haudy Kazemi)  27.09.04 23:31


>I think what this comes down to is the IPCop installation script isn't
>flexible enough to work around a drive with some bad blocks in it like
>your drive.
>If you can figure out the IPCop installer scripts, you
>can probably modify them to give you manual control over the drive
>formatting and partitioning.  This may be as simple as inserting a
>'return to shell' command in the current install script so you can do
>the formatting and partitioning yourself, 

Once upton a time i had a Unix setup disc that works as
IPcop-CD: Doit, but don't ask many question...
Some daysomeone crashed the /etc/passwd, no root login possible.
(but the users could happily work...)
"Take the Backup" Great idea! But how to restore /etc/passwd
without a "root" account?
And the bootable CD available was that setup CD, which only installs 
a new systen.
The solution was easy:
That setup menu had an "unvisible" documented feature:
If you pressed the letters "shell" (blindly) you got
a shell... So it was no problem to remove that dammend 
superflous linefeed at the start of passwd...



Wouldn't that be an easy way to implemted such an
"emergency exit" for IPcop too?


Rainer