Hellfire103 to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoLooks like I'll be distrohopping again!imagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down16
arrow-up177arrow-down1imageLooks like I'll be distrohopping again!Hellfire103 to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareJATth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 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-squareHellfire103OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·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.