From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:51:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908121451.53044.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1c10dab0908120544o2f911f43nefa0d330e3a5fe87@mail.gmail.com>
On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Ward Poelmans wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu<shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
wrote:
> >> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup
> >> laptop".
> >
> > Keeping the previous (working) kernel, and having a rescue disk around
> > usually is enough to fix most kinds of breakages. Also building binary
> > packages is useful for quickly restored broken packages
> > (FEATURES=buildpkg or something like that in make.conf).
>
> Ubuntu on a USB drive is very helpfull in all kinds of situations ;-)
> And it's a lot cheaper then a backup laptop.
>
> Ward
systemrescuecd is even more helpfull
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 5:13 [gentoo-user] Knock on wood Alan E. Davis
2009-08-12 8:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-12 12:58 ` Dale
2009-08-12 9:10 ` Philip Webb
2009-08-12 11:43 ` bn
2009-08-12 12:13 ` William Kenworthy
2009-08-12 12:28 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2009-08-12 12:44 ` Ward Poelmans
2009-08-12 12:51 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2009-08-12 18:34 ` Ward Poelmans
2009-08-12 18:41 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-08-12 15:52 ` bn
2009-08-12 13:37 ` Dale
2009-08-12 13:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-12 14:20 ` Dale
2009-08-12 18:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-12 20:19 ` Stroller
2009-08-12 20:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-12 23:48 ` Dale
2009-08-12 20:58 ` Mike Edenfield
2009-08-12 21:08 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-08-12 21:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2009-08-12 21:46 ` BRM
2009-08-12 21:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-13 3:46 ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-08-13 7:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-14 4:41 ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-08-14 8:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-12 22:07 ` Stroller
2009-08-12 23:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-12 13:51 ` Philip Webb
2009-08-12 14:22 ` Dale
2009-08-12 20:01 ` Dan Farrell
2009-08-12 23:54 ` Dale
2009-08-13 17:08 ` Dan Farrell
2009-08-13 19:34 ` Dale
2009-08-13 19:58 ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-12 20:17 ` Stroller
2009-08-12 23:06 ` bn
2009-08-12 23:59 ` Dale
2009-08-12 15:28 ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-19 7:08 ` Keith Dart
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