On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Ward Poelmans wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu<shr...@unlimitedmail.org> wrote: > >> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup > >> laptop". > > > > Keeping the previous (working) kernel, and having a rescue disk around > > usually is enough to fix most kinds of breakages. Also building binary > > packages is useful for quickly restored broken packages > > (FEATURES=buildpkg or something like that in make.conf). > > Ubuntu on a USB drive is very helpfull in all kinds of situations ;-) > And it's a lot cheaper then a backup laptop. > > Ward
systemrescuecd is even more helpfull
