Ward Poelmans ha scritto: > 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.
This is an extremly clever idea! thanks!! m.
