From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:24:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081030172419.48c66bc7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081030054630.GC7758@revolver>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:46:30 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote:
> > It's a bit late now, but installing a second distro, or a bare stage 3
> > gentoo, as a dual boot so you can still access the machoine if it
> > breaks. As an alternative, send the user a GRML CD and get them to
> > boot that if things go wrong.
> There is no need to drive there or to send a cd. Even with no com_err
> and no wget, you can still ssh into the machine, so scp should work too.
On this occasion, yes. But as a general CYA policy, as long as the user
is capable of making a selection from a boot menu, a fallback distro
would be useful in this situation.
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Neil Bothwick
If it isn't broken, I can fix it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-30 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-29 2:34 [gentoo-user] blocks to fix Mark Knecht
2008-10-29 2:43 ` James Homuth
2008-10-29 3:11 ` Allan Gottlieb
2008-10-29 16:24 ` Andrew MacKenzie
2008-10-29 18:00 ` Mark Knecht
2008-10-29 20:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-29 21:46 ` Mark Knecht
2008-10-30 20:44 ` Alex Schuster
2008-10-30 21:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-30 21:57 ` Paul Hartman
2008-10-30 22:12 ` BRM
2008-10-30 22:58 ` Mark Knecht
2008-10-29 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2008-10-30 5:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Momesso Andrea
2008-10-30 17:24 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-10-30 18:05 ` Mark Knecht
2008-10-30 11:18 ` KH
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