Hello, Folderol wrote: > The situation is getting pretty desperate. I have now had to add the > debian squeeze repository to get sufficiently up-to-date libraries for > compiling things like Rosegarden - thorn and Yoshimi (an absolutely > brilliant semi-fork of ZynAddSubFX). > > I feel I'm walking on eggshells at the moment, and that the whole > tottering edifice will come crashing down on me at any moment. I don't > dare do any general, or even security updates on this machine :
I have used Remastersys to successfully backup a working system on a DVD, and then made experiments like compiling new packages and adding odd sources. If things come crashing down I've simply and quickly re-installed the latest snapshot of the working system. I've been doing this with a Debian based system that has packages from 64 Studio repos and elsewhere. I haven't tried it with 64 Studio 3.0 beta, but it should work with Ubuntu based systems too. I have to boot with the custom kernel (+ squashfs-modules and either the aufs-modules or unionfs-modules) when making the backup, but rt-kernels and all other stuff will be there after re-install, Remastersys can make a backup of the complete system. This tool has really saved my day, more than once! http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/remastersys.html Greetings, Tapani _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
