From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbGIU-0000Hr-8O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:03:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 950DCE08B2; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18575E08B2 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so59758eyb.10 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:01:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kqWCTbjyfnLqLO/xDAPwgIpkGcmeyONgnJr0zZhqEb4=; b=Kwcp8qMlR6mW1GcLgQP2ot1Xge+ABj1yg+fZpnhW882GShhUUhUkVWmPrZY5yHrbex NF0gH/zMO0+idRPt5/2+W7hFVMRfsftSV2h7fDCMvyPg4jUGXAMYWwD0PTjzLCxa29s/ rW/+ER14sWJjRqyf98iKKlkZEfkmcDPXDvyS4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hGL0k7iKD2if1JpONhLGhDGh00SIp6hWbRcZTln3Jf7FwCKzUt/4ejU1rDYSFjFZni UA9T8L1zairaTwxI1k0jB/8K7nUXLuDxSsRDUChGrX8nBdntGY7tsOxBNJtupZNgo3KA Gfxs1OPLhc0RMuu5uZ2TytRbv8fzx16ZJ2/c8= Received: by 10.210.112.4 with SMTP id k4mr349659ebc.22.1250092866284; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?131.111.115.220? (mvmaclap04.ch.cam.ac.uk [131.111.115.220]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm1074088eyh.36.2009.08.12.09.01.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:01:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A82E553.5090006@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:52:51 +0100 From: bn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090707) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood References: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> <20090812091028.GA4887@ca.inter.net> <4A82AADF.70600@gmail.com> <200908121328.53856.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0500b69c-37fd-40e7-996c-6e3ea2213b3d X-Archives-Hash: 46767f9a38bf42da34532d8e2dbd083c Ward Poelmans ha scritto: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu 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. This is an extremly clever idea! thanks!! m.