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LPI Linux Certification/Creating Recovery Disks
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Detailed Objective
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Description:
Candidates should be able to create bootdisks for system entrance and recovery disks for system repair.
Key knowledge area(s):
Filesystem configuration files
INIT configuration files
Any standard editor
Familiarity with the location and contents of the LDP Bootdisk-HOWTO
Tools to manipulate the MBR
Tools and utilities to copy and mount filesystems
GRUB
LILO
Loop devices
Making CD or USB storage devices bootable
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/etc/fstab
/etc/inittab
/usr/sbin/rdev
/bin/cat
/bin/mount (includes -o loop switch)
/sbin/lilo
/bin/dd
/sbin/mke2fs
/usr/sbin/chroot
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