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. Ward
