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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:46:30 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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>> > It's a bit late now, but installing a second distro, or a bare stage 3 |
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>> > gentoo, as a dual boot so you can still access the machoine if it |
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>> > breaks. As an alternative, send the user a GRML CD and get them to |
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>> > boot that if things go wrong. |
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>> There is no need to drive there or to send a cd. Even with no com_err |
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>> and no wget, you can still ssh into the machine, so scp should work too. |
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> On this occasion, yes. But as a general CYA policy, as long as the user |
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> is capable of making a selection from a boot menu, a fallback distro |
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> would be useful in this situation. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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Yes, it would be helpful. In my case it would need to be configured |
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for full ssh/noip support, and probably shouldn't be Gentoo based as |
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this selection wouldn't likely get updated very often and the now far |
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more restrictive policies on how often Gentoo has to be updated |
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probably aren't appropriate for this task. |
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None the less maybe a good thing for me to do would be to do an |
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install of something like this remotely, test it, and then deal with |
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system updates later. |
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Also, as long as ssh isn't harmed I can pretty much scp any package to |
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the machine and get it working again, albeit with some extra work. |
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Normally I already do a --fetchonly any time I'm planning on an emerge |
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-DuN world but if I forgot usually you can still make it work somehow. |
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Take care, |
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Mark |
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