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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.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If it isn't broken, I can fix it.

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  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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