Hellfire103 to [email protected]English • 1 year agoLooks like I'll be distrohopping again!sopuli.xyzmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up182
arrow-up176imageLooks like I'll be distrohopping again!sopuli.xyzHellfire103 to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareJATthlinkfedilink4•1 year agoSo it is btrfs snapshot time again and making it a bootable backup before pacman -Syu? I have had only single time I remember when the Arch upgrade truly fucked up the system: libreadline.so was broken so bash didn’t work. :D I always have a second bootable system in case the main system is unable to boot… So I can at least troubleshoot the main system.
minus-squareHellfire103OPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoI have multiple devices, but I just use my trusty KNOPPIX LiveCD to unlock the disk and move everything onto an external hard drive before either troubleshooting via chroot or just doing a clean install.
So it is btrfs snapshot time again and making it a bootable backup before
pacman -Syu
?I have had only single time I remember when the Arch upgrade truly fucked up the system: libreadline.so was broken so bash didn’t work. :D
I always have a second bootable system in case the main system is unable to boot… So I can at least troubleshoot the main system.
I have multiple devices, but I just use my trusty KNOPPIX LiveCD to unlock the disk and move everything onto an external hard drive before either troubleshooting via chroot or just doing a clean install.