[juneau-lug] Re: 64 bit business card rescue CD

  • From: Kevin Miller <atftb2@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:25:40 -0800

James Zuelow wrote:
> Hey guys - checked my mail today & saw all of this traffic.  Thanks for 
> looking around!
> 
> Kevin, the Debian AMD64 net install image would work just fine - the Etch 
> install CD's have a rescue shell on them, even the small ones.

OK - I put the full sized CD in my 32 bit box.  It started to boot - up 
until it got to the 64 bit part. <g>  So I'll burn you a copy of that 
when I get a BBC from Jacob or Chuck.

> I don't think you'll have much luck finding a fully fledged 64 bit live CD, 
> as 
> there are too many things missing from AMD64 still - a real java plugin for 
> Firefox, flash, lots of device drivers, etc.  So someone's 64 bit live CD 
> would be pretty lame compared to their 32 bit version.

No, I didn't expect so, but I was thinking that someone might have made 
a 64 bit rescue CD.  All the geeky stuff w/o the fluff and eye candy.


> All I need a 64 bit CD for is so that I can chroot to my hard drive if I need 
> to, and use the binaries there.

OK - so what else outta be in a care package, as long as we're putting 
one together?


> And I *am* broke, but at home, not here.  My desktop machine back home is 
> locking up on the 'you've mounted 30 times and now need to fsck' check.  
> Bummer.  :(

Need access?  Maybe we can arrange a house call.  Had to run e2fsck 
twice this week on my SUSE box at home so I'm sorta practiced at it. 
Apparently, when you cancel a 2+ gb file move in Konqueror from a rieser 
fs to a ext3 fs it leaves all sorts of things kind of in limbo.  Or 
something.  Sad story follows:

I upgraded to SUSE 10.3, overwriting my 80 gb disk,but before I did that 
I did a 'cp -a /home /local/home.tmp'.  /local/home.tmp is a 300 gb 
disk.  That way, when the /home tree was recreated, I could just copy 
all my stuff back.  Half way through, I cancelled the copy thinking I 
should delete a lot of the old junk instead of copying it.  Hit cancel 
in Konqueror, deleted the stuff on /local that I didn't want, copied the 
rest, then did the normal stuff one does after a new install - surf, 
read email, install programs that aren't part of the stock install,etc. 
  Next morning I land at a CLI as root with / mount ro and a pocketful 
of errors.  Sigh.

Don't know if it was Konqueror, disparate file systems, quantity of 
files or what, but something went wonky.  Seems all better now though.

So, long story short, if you want, maybe one of us can swing by and run 
fsck or e2fsck or whatever is appropriate on the thing so you can get 
back in.  (I presume that's what you're trying to do)...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
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