-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 September 2006 15:09, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > If we are talking about unstable breakages I always remember the > yaird issue (about one year ago), which made my system unbootable. > This is how I learned to fix it with a chroot from Knoppix.
While I have reinstalled from zero twice in the last couple of years, once for a new HD and once because Circuit City decided to reinstall Windows XP on my machine that was in to get the CDROM serviced (and the fan cleaned! never buy a laptop where you cannot clean the fan, it is a NIGHTMARE), I've been using Unstable on my desktop/laptop machines exclusively. The yaird upgrade, as well as xfree to xorg transition, were the times when Unstable really lived up to its name. I didn't have as much trouble as some with yaird, because I chanced to have a back-rev kernel on the machine to boot into when I had the same problem you did. In fact, I have yet to ever use chroot, so I'm hoping the HowTo will be up to teaching me when the time comes. My experience with Unstable has been that big things going wrong are rare. Very rare. As long as I allow the un-met dependencies to keep packages back, problems tend not to happen. Real bugs, like the inability to automount USB keys and such from a few weeks ago, are quickly fixed. Fixing little problems have helped me learn more about the system than I ever learned about Windows, but the modularity of Debian and Linux in general means that so long as I keep a KNOPPIX disk handy there is no problem that is insurmountable. Like some others here, I've never had data loss due to software failure. At worst, once, I used Knoppix to boot the machine, copied my home directory and a .zip of /etc (always back up your /etc!) to a server and took the opportunity to upgrade to GRUB from LILO. Contrast that to the endless battle trying to figure out why _this_ reinstall of Win2K isn't working, and reinstalling again, and even Unstable Debian is head and shoulders over what other software distributors call "stable". Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRQHG7C9Y35yItIgBAQJ2NQf+PItWLg9RKdg56JEcq+mhe2JAchZRg46O 7lQSBDuJ/otIw7k99RZYCqMvawBIBc56awThUg+hfNqv05rGsNp5HCbKd3Ik7Ncr kJUOE8qksJ9P/dgmT78RrbmwRwIOvv8iKSXMH5cSYpqYSav7QD7gTEblQgdfTda9 mdmMvFOwK+dL/iMUGkLj30U7bwLFzJl/s0iUuA+krZpQxoG/zLltsBjgYm4BM1Zj mUTNB47PcDH2ATj+H4FZHQe7q5BpCxBbYS+4cJO+1K7H8PYrMYjv3PWTF2wYchNe 4oLNxu14M3GguZ40T/XpARGqfZjWwmpd7VPQ17Fy16e/xEoify9/Jw== =g4Yr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
