Re: Dug myself into several deep holes
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:38:27AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2004 10:18 am, Nano Nano wrote:
>
> > Now I have my install scripted: boot from Woody, install, upgrade to SID
> > from local partial mirror, run scripts. I wipe the disk or reinstall
> > when anything gets the least bit squirrelly, which can be as little as
> > one day or as much as every couple months.
> >
> > Works for me.
>
> Backups backups backups. Stop wiping and start restoring, if the "squirrelly"
> behavior was caused by the admin, the admin should be able to put things back
> the way they were. Right?
Sure, it takes me 30 minutes to do a scripted install and 2 minutes to
restore a partition.
If that mattered to me, I'd do it. I like that "clean" feeling of doing
a fresh install, that way I *know* I'm not unknowingly preserving any
old bad decisions with subtle ramifications or hidden security bugs.
I've got all my dotfiles saved, so after I wipe, I have to do *zero*
customization. In other contexts I would make other decisions.
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