Carl Lowenstein wrote: > 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?
Heh! I didn't want to get that fancy. My niece, although somewhat computer-naive, is intelligent and capable of choosing among alternate boot options. ==> In case of emergency, boot to XYZ and call jim. You do make me ask what I would expect to do from an "EBP", though. I guess fix grub.conf and fstab, empty full filesystems, run fsck, check logs? Don't know what else, really -- just seems like cheap use of a couple GB of disk space. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
