Someone corrupted my libc.so file and linux now refuses to boot, giving a
Someone?
Is there anyway I can boot into the machine in rescue mode using floppies?
The boot images in the CD are installation ones. and other boot images of
Write the boot.img from the CD to the floppy and boot from it. It will start the installation process. Before it actually does anything (after keyboard and language set up), do Alt+F2 - you'll get a command prompt.
Create a mnt directory, and mount your root partition under that.
You can now write a safe libc.so file to /lib
Reboot.