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On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:33 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > A much better approach would be for there to be a rescue build, |
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> > completely independent of the stages, since it doesn't need to mirror |
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> > them in any way. It should be extracted (self-extracted?) to something |
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> > like /rescue and executed from there, being completely self-contained. |
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> > This keeps it from stomping on system files and breaking |
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> > collision-protect or doing anything else nasty like hosing configuration |
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> > files (ever made the mistake of extracting a stage onto a live |
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> > filesystem?) when unpacked. |
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> This sounds a lot like saying, use an initrd, but when you pivot roots |
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> to the live filesystem, leave it mounted somewhere. |
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Kinda... This wouldn't require a reboot, though. When the user is done, |
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they simply rm -rf /rescue and their system is clean again. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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