On Wednesday 14 September 2005 12:35 pm, Shawn wrote: > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 08:38, Jarrod Major wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 4:59 am, Dave Bourassa wrote: > > > Jarrod, how would you like to do noobs like me a favour, and write this > > > up as a How-to in great detail, explaining what everything does. If it > > > could then be posted to our clug.ca somewhere, then it would be > > > available to all noobs whenever, and whereever they happened to be. > > > > Can do... however, this is pretty distro specific. I know a good number > > of our users favour SuSE as their distro of choice (for now) so it would > > probably be worthwhile. I'll try and get something up there soon. > > The chroot trick is pretty generic for Linux, though getting to a point > where you can do it might be distro specific. (i.e. what command you give > the boot loader...). I've had to do this a few times using a liveCD (any > liveCD will do, then mount the drive and do whatever was needed. As near > as I know this applies to all distros. > > SO, this "How-To" CAN be made to be generic, yet make mention of some > distro specifics. What do you think?
I agree, I can reset any password with knoppix. If it's a 64 bit box it can be a bit more interesting with 32 bit knoppix, however I still think it's possible. > > Dave has struck onto a good idea for the site - a Tips And Tricks section > (or something similar). Maybe do this a a new forum category, and make it > searchable? Then anyone can submit their tips. Just a thought. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
