1 If you need a supplemental diskette, you'll need to create one. Section 2.5 describes how a supplemental diskette is created.
2 No guessing allowed!
3 To do this, you'll need to create a rescue diskette from the rescue.img image contained in the images directory of your Red Hat Linux CD-ROM. Appendix B explains how to do this.
4 One could argue that it's pretty much the same thing.
5 It also controls which filesystems are automatically mounted when the system is booted.
6 This is a joke, not a typo!
7 Well, it should be...
8 Just kidding -- thank you Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for your inspired operating system design!