Yard is a suite of Perl scripts for creating rescue disks (also called
bootdisks).  A rescue disk is a self-contained Linux kernel and
filesystem on a floppy, usually used when you can't (or don't want to)
boot off your hard disk.  A rescue disk usually contains utilities for
diagnosing and manipulating hard disks and filesystems.

There are several important differences between Yard from other rescue tools:

- Yard is not a rescue disk or a boot disk.  It is a tool for creating
  rescue/boot disks.  There are no pre-fab disk images, and you'll have to do
  a certain amount of file choosing in order to make it work.  However, the
  result will be a customized rescue diskette that may be more useful,
  complete and up-to-date.

- Yard does not use special, minimal files (eg, busybox, tinylogin, reduced
  libc.so, etc.) as many bootdisks do in order to make everything fit in a
  small filesystem.  Instead, Yard uses standard files from your hard disk
  installation, and allows you to occupy as many diskettes as you need.  Since
  everything is compressed, 2-3 diskettes are usually all you need.


Yard has the following features:
	- Allows absolute and relative filenames, symbolic links, file
	  replacements and full shell-style globbing.
	- Automatically determines necessary libraries and loaders.
	- Strips binaries and libraries appropriately during copying.
	- Automatically regenerates ld.so.cache
	- Checks for broken symlinks
	- Checks fstab, inittab, termcap, pam.conf and rc files for common
	    errors and inconsistencies.
	- Does basic checking of PAM and NSS requirements.
	- Checks user directories and files mentioned in /etc/passwd 
	- Checks command files (eg, rc.local and .login) and scripts for
	  missing binaries and command interpreters.
	- Automatically performs filesystem compression and copying.
	- Can be used with or without LILO.
	- Can make single or double disk sets.
        - Default choices provided for popular distributions.
	- Extensive checking of user choices and execution errors.

Yard requires Perl 5 and Linux kernel 2.0 or later.
