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Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...



On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:43:04PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
[...]
> And Debian still don't have a live distribution to be used for
> rescue,

Well, there's this, which I've had great experiences with so far
(though the automatic reassembly of md devices and activation of
volume groups was recently mentioned as dangerous in some cases):

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-505-i386-rescue.iso

> so a minimal / is essential, also for emergency backup uses. [BTW
> I don't think that we could have a CD-ROM or USB live/emergency
> disk on all architectures].
[...]

Certainly not all architectures, I would agree (and the
above-mentioned ISO was only provided for i386 and amd64 with etch).
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