On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:33 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > A much better approach would be for there to be a rescue build, > > completely independent of the stages, since it doesn't need to mirror > > them in any way. It should be extracted (self-extracted?) to something > > like /rescue and executed from there, being completely self-contained. > > This keeps it from stomping on system files and breaking > > collision-protect or doing anything else nasty like hosing configuration > > files (ever made the mistake of extracting a stage onto a live > > filesystem?) when unpacked. > > This sounds a lot like saying, use an initrd, but when you pivot roots > to the live filesystem, leave it mounted somewhere.
Kinda... This wouldn't require a reboot, though. When the user is done, they simply rm -rf /rescue and their system is clean again. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCiirqXVaO67S1rtsRAgHyAJ49adhPpYhwHqUeFNMw4I6h+GUyDwCfbwMB > rgA0GKbYsBjd8K9I7X2pyE8= > =tZSe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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