From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvbFv-000511-JP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:24:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53696E0348; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C01E0348 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D33383F2377 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:24:19 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:24:19 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix Message-ID: <20081030172419.48c66bc7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081030054630.GC7758@revolver> References: <5bdc1c8b0810281934y6b4370al84f174a1d11f6b87@mail.gmail.com> <047601c93970$26c2f0c0$a500a8c0@quan> <20081029162433.GY18532@edespot.com> <5bdc1c8b0810291100y8ceb38ey3fb3dfc999a5c168@mail.gmail.com> <20081029204913.53c484ff@digimed.co.uk> <20081030054630.GC7758@revolver> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1cvs12 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/QJdf3LeAknggY7AQpeqaD=a"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 8d6adaca-08e3-48da-a68b-bd9867ff9ef6 X-Archives-Hash: cc38fdebe198910debb5000fc73cfbb3 --Sig_/QJdf3LeAknggY7AQpeqaD=a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick If it isn't broken, I can fix it. --Sig_/QJdf3LeAknggY7AQpeqaD=a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkJ7cMACgkQum4al0N1GQP1nwCeNi4l5H7FkjNWsH8jsb4UvwMR FHoAoJHOMBtWo2PF8m1HbBirZRtrevWw =JwFz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/QJdf3LeAknggY7AQpeqaD=a--