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> Several packages for creating rescue disks are available on
www.ibiblio.org. With these packages you specify a set of files for inclusion
and the software automates (to varying degrees) the creation of a bootdisk.
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for more information. <EM
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Some of these packages have not been updated in several years and will not
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