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From: Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:44:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1c10dab0908120544o2f911f43nefa0d330e3a5fe87@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908121328.53856.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 12:44 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 [this message]
2009-08-12 12:51         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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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