-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2010-02-20 at 06:45 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/02/20 12:13 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. composed:
HG wrote:
Uh, minor problem... the old CD-rom drive doesn't seem to work anymore :-( :-(
Then, install a new one. I'm serious.
With brand new DVD readers retailing over the internet for as little as under $30USD delivered, it could be pretty hard to justify not replacing.
That's right. Except, of course, if he lives in an impversihed country.
Yes, it is possible to install without one, but, if you have problems, you will not have the posibility of booting a rescue cd/dvd....
"Will not" is not accurate. If he has an uncorrupted MBR, and an uncorrupted /boot partition containing an installation kernel and initrd, then he can rescue without any optical media reader. Even better he could partition to have more than one / partition and just chroot from the other to fix the corrupted one.
Yes, true. I like to have a "rescue" partition myself. However, my grub broke down recently... so an alternate booting scheme is a must have, and for a server, a *must* *have* ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkt/0GsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W35gCgkwCI8RIIy7ZeRhYR4lcweiOT HSUAnRgI39bVgrRcOgZLgD/gX6axhI9K =znbt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org