Shouldn't need to be any particular variety of live cd, I would think, to copy files.
"Bill Kendrick" <n...@sonic.net> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:55:40PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote: >> I can burn one for you in the morning. This is one reason why I do >> separate partitions for / and /home. > >Cool, thanks. And yeah, lesson learned. :) > > >> Have you tried an apt-get dist-upgrade with a force option from the >> command line to see if it just needs to rerun or finish some stuff. >My >> upgrade along the same line went fine for my laptop a few months >back. > >Well at this point I'm dropped into a root shell, disk is read-only, >and things are borked (e.g., Vim doesn't run). So I figured a live CD >would >be the least frustrating situation to work off of. > >Thx! > >-bill! >_______________________________________________ >vox-tech mailing list >vox-tech@lists.lugod.org >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
