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On 2 November 2014 13:14:56 WET, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Am 01.11.2014 um 23:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: |
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> > On 1 November 2014 17:19:18 WET, Peter Humphrey |
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> > <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > One useful feature for me is that grub2 will boot from an |
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> ISO |
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> > image, I always keep system rescue cd image in /boot. |
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> > We all have our own ways of doing things. My equivalent to that |
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> is to have a |
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> > small rescue system in its own partition on each box, tailored |
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> to its |
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> > companion main system. |
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> > That's what I used to do until I found grub 2 could boot an ISO. Now |
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> I |
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> > only need to copy one file to /boot to update my rescue setup. |
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> > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
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> I have an usb stick for that. Advantage: even if the ssd containing / |
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> and /boot dies, I can get to my data in /home. |
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Oh, I have a couple of USB sticks too, but having it in boot means I don't have to look in half a dozen places to find one. The USB sticks are used in real emergencies. |
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Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
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