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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:38 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> That's why I want something that I can install fast. Gentoo certainly |
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> isn't the right choice for that. If Kubuntu fails, I can just reinstall |
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> and not format /home. |
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That's why ${DEITY} gave us backups: no need to reinstall just roll back |
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to the last working version. Even if your backup is a couple of weeks |
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old, it with be more up to date than any distro CD. |
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> Right now, if Gentoo fails to boot because of the init thingy, I have no |
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> idea how to fix it. None at all. I know the basics of what it does but |
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> no idea how to fix it when it breaks. That's where I am now with regard |
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> to my other post. I can't su to root when using the init thingy but can |
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> when I don't use the init thingy. I have no clue where to even start to |
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> fix it. |
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Why not post the details of it? All an initramfs is is an init script and |
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a few binaries. Extract the init script, the initramfs file is a plain |
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cpio archive, and post it here. |
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> Me clueless since this is something I tried to avoid in the past and not |
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> sure why it is needed now either. |
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Because upstream decided to work this way to avoid the problems caused by |
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the anachronistic separation of / and /usr. This is not so much a |
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decision by the udev devs as an acceptance that the current filesystem |
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organisation was becoming ever more unworkable in the general case. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Self-explanatory": technospeak for "Incomprehensible & undocumented" |
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