[PLUG] Pause booting?

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Sun Nov 16 00:51:14 UTC 2008


On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Russell Senior wrote:

> Date: 15 Nov 2008 16:16:46 -0800
> From: Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Pause booting?
> 
>>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:
>
> John> Reinstalling from scratch is not a good option. It would take a
> John> couple of days to reinstall all the software that is installed
> John> on the computer.
>
> [...]
>
> John> I would learn nothing from reinstalling. Learning how to fix
> John> things is much more profitable.
>
> Oh, I think the tedium of reinstalling would help reinforce the
> undesireability of deleting random files (if I recall your story
> correctly) from your machine. ;-)
>
> -- 
> Russell Senior, Secretary
> russell at personaltelco.net

Agreed.  The knowledge required to do a file-by-file reconstruction of
the system goes well beyond any one person's abilities.  The really
smart linux guru would recognize this immediately, and restore from
backup.

Carlos



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