From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@altum.de>
Subject: Re: Linux distro for new server?
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:59:28 +0100
Date: 2013-01-05T08:59:28+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kc8mh1$rae$1@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pq1lpsv5.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org
Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> There is no separate installer for "desktop" as opposed to "server"
> machines; the same installer works for everything from a Raspberry Pi to
> a z10 mainframe, with laptops old and new in between. This installer
> does not require the machine to even have a keyboard, let alone a
> graphical display; it is quite content with a network or serial
> connection.
>
> I've used this installer at least a dozen times in the past 12 years.
> Every single time I was astounded by the quality of the engineering and
> the amount of detail that went into this program, especially considering
> that this program normally runs only once on a given machine :)
>
> Just three examples:
>
> [...]
Let me add another one :)
It was just yesterday that I used it as a rescue system for my Guruplug,
which all of a sudden stopped booting inside initramfs, leaving me with
nothing but the "(initramfs)" prompt. So I've put it's kernel and initrd
onto a microsd card, booted from it, mounted my filesystems, entered chroot
and recreated the initrd. That was all done over serial line attached to the
plugs JTAG port. Now it's up and running fine again.
Bye...
Dirk
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 0:42 Linux distro for new server? Randy Brukardt
2013-01-03 5:50 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-03 15:42 ` Tero Koskinen
2013-01-03 16:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-03 22:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-04 0:10 ` Brian Drummond
2013-01-04 11:42 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-04 2:15 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-04 2:46 ` Bill Findlay
2013-01-04 2:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-04 2:53 ` Bill Findlay
2013-01-04 2:46 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-05 4:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05 7:59 ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2013-01-11 16:55 ` Björn Persson
2013-01-04 8:33 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-04 11:49 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-04 12:28 ` Simon Clubley
2013-01-03 18:32 ` Pascal Obry
2013-01-04 14:48 ` Mart van de Wege
2013-01-03 8:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-01-06 23:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-07 9:08 ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-01-07 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-03 21:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-04 6:17 ` montezf
2013-01-05 4:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05 16:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-08 2:49 ` Randy Brukardt
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