On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:17:08PM -0400, James Mastros wrote: > One step at a time, my friend, one step at a time. If you needed to know > 1M things before to diagnose the problem, now you only need to know > 1,048,575 things. > > Also, it means you don't have to explain to hold down shift and type > init=/bin/sash real quick to your grandmother. You have to explain to hold > down shift and type emergency (though IMHO "recovery" would be better under > the don't-panic theory... especialy if you are doing consumer tech support), > which is, yes, only a hair better, but better it is. Better how? You've made the easiest step of the whole process marginally easier by saving four words of the explaination. The process is mechanically just about identical. And now the person is sitting in front of a prompt like this: > What do they do now? If you can walk them through the procedure to go from ">" to a working system, you can just as easily walk them through the requirements for getting to ">". I can't even imagine a document which can impart enough information to recover a severely damaged system that doesn't explain the fundamentals of how the whole system works--at which point the init=sash is obvious. Mike Stone
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