I have three Gentoo workstations. One is a laptop I take with me, and the other two are used by other people and stay at a remote location that I only visit occasionally. I would like nothing more than to have Gentoo and only Gentoo on these three machines but I'm scared of something not working at the wrong time. I'm happy to only make system changes according to GLSAs when I'm not at home base (where problems can be worked out slowly), but here are the two scenarios that freak me out:
1. I'm traveling and need to connect my laptop to strange Internet connections that (with Linux) require exotic configs. 2. I'm traveling and I apply a GLSA to one of the systems and something important breaks (network connectivity, xorg, etc). I do have VMware Workstation running XP on each system, but that relies on most of Gentoo working. I hate to say it, but it seems like maybe I should set up a dual-boot configuration on each of these machines so they can boot into Windows when Gentoo isn't working. The main issues I have with this are: 1. the remote administration problems 2. the security implications I've been running all of this over in my head, and I thought I'd get your guys' advice. From what I've read, dual booting XP with Linux is a real hassle. I could use 98SE instead, but it's really not as sweet. - Grant -- [email protected] mailing list
