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> Any other Unix I've worked with provides some way to recover from disk
> corruption other than reinstalling the entire system from the
> installation medium. I do not see any reason why Linux should be an
> exception.

It isn't. Slackware has one.

> The last one, not the least one,if there is a reason why
> telinit [0123456sS] should not be used, at least under X, it should
> be reflected in the documentation in a very explicit way. I guess
> something like :
>
> "WARNING : YOU CAN MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER BY USING THIS COMMAND"

It can't. More likely you had a disk fault, a corruption or using a buggy
beta linux kernel. As to not having a rescue disk, well you should have
made one or got the slackware one.

Alan


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