On Monday 10 May 2004 11:27, Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 9 May 2004, Smitty wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 May 2004 23:31, Eben King wrote:
snip
> > You are essentially doing it. You use one hard drive for fiddling and
> > the other contains the stable binaries.
>
> Well yeah, that works for mistakes that I discover within one day
> (technically, that I discover before 5am). However, if I hadn't rebooted
> before the backup ran, I wouldn't have discovered the error, and the bad
> modules would've been backed up. What then, boot from an OS CD, chroot
> into my system, "rpm -i" a stock kernel and modules, and then upgrade from
> there?
OK, then you could burn /boot, /etc, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /root and /home to
cdrws as often as desired so that you have the critical files in case you
hose your system. /usr and /opt could also be burned.
>
> That's a good reason to keep at all times a previous kernel + modules.
I keep a previous kernel+mods for as long as I have doubts about stability of
the current one.
Smitty
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