01-25-2011
I often use Gentoo minimal ISO's as rescue CDs. They boot to a generic root prompt from which you can mount your local disks and chroot into your own system. They support quite a lot of hardware. You don't boot into X this way, though.
The kernel doesn't need to be precisely the same unless you intend to load your own modules from disk. I can understand making custom boot floppies, since almost nothing but the most critical drivers will fit...
Last edited by Corona688; 01-25-2011 at 02:55 PM..
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encode::byte
Encode::Byte(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Encode::Byte(3pm)
NAME
Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings
SYNOPSIS
use Encode qw/encode decode/;
$greek = encode("iso-8859-7", $utf8); # loads Encode::Byte implicitly
$utf8 = decode("iso-8859-7", $greek); # ditto
ABSTRACT
This module implements various single byte encodings. For most cases it uses x80-xff (upper half) to map non-ASCII characters.
Encodings supported are as follows.
Canonical Alias Description
--------------------------------------------------------------------
# ISO 8859 series
(iso-8859-1 is in built-in)
iso-8859-2 latin2 [ISO]
iso-8859-3 latin3 [ISO]
iso-8859-4 latin4 [ISO]
iso-8859-5 [ISO]
iso-8859-6 [ISO]
iso-8859-7 [ISO]
iso-8859-8 [ISO]
iso-8859-9 latin5 [ISO]
iso-8859-10 latin6 [ISO]
iso-8859-11
(iso-8859-12 is nonexistent)
iso-8859-13 latin7 [ISO]
iso-8859-14 latin8 [ISO]
iso-8859-15 latin9 [ISO]
iso-8859-16 latin10 [ISO]
# Cyrillic
koi8-f
koi8-r cp878 [RFC1489]
koi8-u [RFC2319]
# Vietnamese
viscii
# all cp* are also available as ibm-*, ms-*, and windows-*
# also see L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752010%28VS.85%29.aspx>
cp424
cp437
cp737
cp775
cp850
cp852
cp855
cp856
cp857
cp860
cp861
cp862
cp863
cp864
cp865
cp866
cp869
cp874
cp1006
cp1250 WinLatin2
cp1251 WinCyrillic
cp1252 WinLatin1
cp1253 WinGreek
cp1254 WinTurkish
cp1255 WinHebrew
cp1256 WinArabic
cp1257 WinBaltic
cp1258 WinVietnamese
# Macintosh
# Also see L<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>
MacArabic
MacCentralEurRoman
MacCroatian
MacCyrillic
MacFarsi
MacGreek
MacHebrew
MacIcelandic
MacRoman
MacRomanian
MacRumanian
MacSami
MacThai
MacTurkish
MacUkrainian
# More vendor encodings
AdobeStandardEncoding
nextstep
hp-roman8
DESCRIPTION
To find how to use this module in detail, see Encode.
SEE ALSO
Encode
perl v5.16.2 2012-08-26 Encode::Byte(3pm)