Hi Robert,
There are *probably* two file systems: /boot on a regular partition (probably the first partition on the hard drive) and / on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. You'll have to look at /etc/fstab closely. There might be more than two file systems -- eg /home, etc. on its own file system.
It should be possible to boot into single user mode. In single user mode it won't even try to bring up the network and won't have DNS issues. When grub starts, hit the 'Any Key' and then edit (e) the boot command and add 'single' to the end of the kernel line and boot that. The advantage of booting the native O/S (in single user mode) is that you will see exactly what the file system layout is, instead of having to poke around and possibly miss something important.
OK, I booted into single user mode and when starting up I see that it says /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 has two volumes.
it the checks /boot and I am at sh-3.00#
in /etc/fstab I see: /dev/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 [snip] Label=/boot /boot ext3 [snip] none /dev/pts none /dev/shm none /proc none /sys /dev/VolGroup00-LogVol01 swap /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk
So if I understand this I can just go after / doing rsync -av?
Thank you for the help thus far!
-Jason