IIRC the LiveCD does support ssh. You might have to start the ssh daemon with /etc/init.d/sshd start. Long ago I used it to get the stage 1 tarball from one of my machines to the box that was to be a Gentoo box.
Backups: /home/* /etc/* /usr/local/anything you've added here. Seems like I'm missing something but I just shut down my main machine that I use for backups down for the night. On Wednesday 10 December 2003 21:00, you wrote: > Hi, > I built a Gentoo machine for my dad who is located about 350 miles > away. He's been using it for 2 weeks now and is loving it. Cool to see a > 75 year old guy using Mozilla and Evolution. > > I have two drives at his site, one internal and one external. I've > set things up for me to do manual backups of the system to the second > drive. (/etc and /home only for now. - comments on other things I should > be backing up?) Anyway, I now want to figure out how I could rebuild the > machine from here should it ever fail. > > I have no experience in this sort of thing, so the first idea I had > was to use the Live CD if it has sshd enabled and running. If he put it > in and rebooted, would the Live CD allow anyone to log in remotely? > > Will this work? Any other ideas about how I could get ready for when > (not if) this eventually happens? > > Thanks, > Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
