On Jan 31, 2008 7:19 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm setting up a Linux system for a relative, who is a fairly naive
> computer user (hey!, at least there's not too much MS-culture to undo).
>
> I will be doing remote admin, in fact it will look a lot like George
> Geller's "Eola" system from the last Kplug meeting -- Linux Mint (for
> the codecs), and all. Primary usage will be low-volume email, websurfing
> and watching NASA-like videos over DSL 1.5Mbps (I think). Not much else,
> actually. Maybe eventually graduating to photo-editing and a little
> document writing .. who knows?
>
> One thought I had was to add a small emergency boot partition (/EBP/) in
> case the main system got really botched up.
>
> Q1: is that worth it? (Failure is not an end-of-the-world situation,
> merely annoying).
>
> Q2: if so, what should I use for the EBP?
>
> Knoppix?
> DSL?
> Ubuntu?
> -what-
Sort of first things first: how would you boot this Emergency Boot
Partition remotely?
carl
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