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On 04/04/2012 06:00 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> This should work as long as the rescue CD finds all your file
> systems and mounts them in the right place (inc. bind mounts for
> /proc, /sys, /dev). If not then setting them by hand isn't a big
> deal.
It's still a text-only environment.
Not if you get all the chroot stuff right and then run the subsequent
startx (that I neatly chopped out when trimming my reply).
I so rarely use it this way though that I am not aware if there are
any problems to doing it this way these days (last time I did stuff
like this was probably while teaching a class based on 2.4 kernel
distros..).
What I think would be really helpful would be a menu item (next to
the liveinst one) on the live images which does the same magic to
autodetect and mount /mnt/sysimage as the rescue disk does, but
from within the graphical live CD environment. I've abused a KDE
Live CD as a rescue disk more than once because it's a much
friendlier rescue environment than the minimalist one on the rescue
image, but mounting the sysimage manually is the harder the more
complex the partition setup on the HDD is.
That's what makes this hard; supporting the default install layout or
very simple setups is quite easy. Catering for anything the user cares
to throw at it I think becomes tricky fast.
Regards,
Bryn.
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