System: FAIL

[tau_iota_mu_c]

Picture the scene: Your's truly running a bit late for night shift, hasn't quite finished packing his bags for the week yet, but decided to download and apply to his laptop, the small set of updates to debian unstable since they were last applied a couple of weeks ago. After packing the other bag, he unplugs the power cable from the laptop and

Comments

[badpauly]

Install Windows ;)

[tau_iota_mu_c]

Now, let's just hope the backup disk holds out. In my breif visit home today, I stopped the backup process on my (idle) server, and put a fan on the disk to try to give it better chances of getting through next week's heat wave. I haven't turned the disk off because I might want to access specific files from the backup over the week.

[tau_iota_mu_c]

So have I :)

But I don't think the debian installer disk has ar. The target directory did though, and it would have even worked, although I wouldn't have been able to read the manpages of either ar or the other program you have to use (it's been a while since I've done this, and the script I would have expected in my ~/bin/ to do this turns out to use dpkg-deb and not ar), because there was no working pager (because of libncurses), and the debian installer environment doesn't have a scrollable framebuffer.