Re: Rescue disk

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On 3/15/06, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ben Steeves wrote:
> > On 3/13/06, Gordon Stewart <gorste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>No I need the rescue disk to fixed the issue.
> >>
> >
> >
> > As I said in my original email, there's a full rescue environment on
> > CD 1.  Just boot off of that.   From the sounds of it though you might
> > be just as well served by re-installing.
>
> _I_'d stuff around until I fixed it; then I'd probably know what I did
> wrong.

So would I.  Then again, I'd have a fair chance of understanding what
went wrong in the first place... but then I'm pretty much a gearhead. 
When an inexperienced user comes across a problem that prevents their
system from even loading the kernel, re-installing is not only the
path of least resistance, it's also the past of maximal sanity.

> I _hate_ problems that get fixed by magic. Only yesterday, on Windows, I
> discovered that creating a link to run a program using the UNC name

Problems are never fixed by magic -- they go away, but they were never fixed.
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