PLUG preferred newbie distro?

Would it be possible ( or practicable) to have a "rescue image" installed as
a second boot image (dual boot)

George

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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:34:31 -0700 (MST)
From: "der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com>
Subject: Re: PLUG preferred newbie distro? (Was: Re: InstallFest decisions)

Am 12. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Michael Havens so:

> If you all are going to install a working Distro on newbies computers yo=
u
> need to take it a step further. You need to write down what you do to get
> their computer going. I mean the first working Linux I had operating on m=
y
> box was Mandrake put onto it by a kind user. Well I formated my HD accide=
ntly
> and had to reinstall it myself but it was not working (modem problems). T=
o
> make matters worse I could not find the kind user to tell me how he got i=
t
> working. Now I have debian (installed through knoppix) and I figured out =
what
> to do to get the modem going but there are some icons on the desktop that
> will not work! (these are the 'CD-ROM' and 'Floppy disk' icons)
> So, as you can see (I hope), we need to give people some persoalized
> documentation. I mean we handed out knoppix CDs but that was all. When I
> first got my knoppix CD I had not a clue what to do with it.

Maybe we need to have an 'emergency recovery partition' like companies
selling boxen with m$ on them do.

Many of the boxen will have more than enough room for that.

ciao,

der.hans