i was trying to build a bootable USB drive for tails testing and somwhow, i don't know how as i was being Real careful, it hammered my boot disk. recovery guidance on the web didnt work. so, as i was on f21, i jumped up to f23, but crave turmoil avoidance. On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach < mafagafogigante(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us&gt; wrote: I am inclined to agree, very often having a drive with a live image laying around helps. -- Bernardo Sulzbach

On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, fred roller wrote: I didn't used to to that but it has saved my bacon a couple of times, especially now that hobbyists like me end up playing around with EFI partitions and such. It's getting all very non-intuitive. I went out and bought one of those 10-pack 16-gig flash drive packs for 40 bucks, and a little flash-drive zip-up pouch, and keep a distro on each one -- gparted, fedora, manjaro, kali, mint, and tails, and a couple for data through a second usb port. As much as I hear (and say) that "linux is linux," it turns out that, for me, different distros are better for different software. Fedora 23, for instance, is more R (the statistical package) friendly than Linux Mint, at least when I try to use it. One of my colleagues had a cow when he had problems accessing a file on his Windows box. He asked me for help, thinking I would do some sort of Windows magic. Instead, I just booted it up in linux and copied the files. Which, as a complete off topic thing, I didn't understand. He was running Windows 10, which I *thought* was encrypted by default. But when I booted the box up in Manjaro, everything was sitting right there. I didn't think it would work but I didn't want to spend an hour clicking buttons in Windows, so I tried it on a lark. billo

On 23 Jan 2016 at 11:56, Jack Craig wrote: Date sent: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:56:46 -0800 Subject: how to create rescue disk fedora 23 From: Jack Craig <jack.craig.aptos(a)gmail.com&gt; To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; There are a number of disks including the livecd or live usb disks, and there are some other emails already. Another option is to do a disk and/or partition images, so you can do a complete restore of everything. I've been the maintainer of g4l since about 2004, but there are other programs like g4u and clonezilla as well. G4L can be added as part of the grub menu. It can also be booted from cd or usb. Making images on a separate disk or partitions, and restoration is fast. Uses dd and compress to make images smaller, and with usb 3 flash or hard disk images are fast. Clearing unused sectors before making image will greatly reduce size since dd copies all data. Project is on sourceforge and is free. Generally, do monthly full images with other files backup with other options. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 39482064.146315 | SETI 73062124.380457 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 85587754.270695