On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:17:49 +0800, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > Maybe there is some misunderstanding here. I think nobody has suggested > > to build a rescue initramfs on the users system tailor made for the > > system. > > We already have debirf for that. > > > I think the idea was for a ready made all purpose live image like grml > > or the DI images. > > We already have something similar: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-6.0.3-amd64-rescue.iso > > Dunno how it compares to grml. I've generally been relatively generous with my allocation of space for /boot, so that would probably been fine for me, but others in this discussion were saying that they'd have to resize partitions to deploy even an initramfs, so suggesting a solution that requires them to stick a live image on their /boot still forces a repartition on them. I have almost no machines that are not RAIDed in some way (apart from my laptop) so I can even repartition most systems relatively painlessly if I'm willing to risk de-RAIDing them briefly. BTW do we have debian-live for ARM? How abut GRML for ARM? Of course, the ARM boxes I've been working on recently are all auto-installed, and configured with cfengine, so I doubt I'd ever bother trying to rescue them unless I was informed that some fool had put unique data on the disk in one, without backing it up. Also, if I was expecting to have to rescue them, I'd just install another copy of Debian on the built in flash, so there's no need for a live CD, but I still don't like losing the option of rescuing using the traditional method, so I'll be shifting to having / and /usr on a simple partition if we adopt this change. I'd still like to know what the compelling reason for the change is though. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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