On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote:
> > 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? > > What tools do I need? > > In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from > another box. As a last resort you could boot a live CD chroot and fix > things. How do I boot without x? (I've got a feeling I should know this) I am using grub. > > 2. I have an rsynced backup on an external usb harddrive, but unless I > > can loggin how can I restore the files from the backup? > > By booting from a live CD. I tried that but my cd didn't have rsync on it Its 2005.1 created Sept 05 -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
