True Stories of Knoppix Rescues

Omniscientist writes "We've all been there: Our system is on the edge of death and we need to either fix it or retrieve important data that still remains hidden away in its dying clutches. LinuxDevCenter has a funny article on a heroic tale of a sysadmin relying on Knoppix to save the day. I for one, always make a boot disk in case of problems, but Knoppix can turn a bad day into a good one for just about anyone. Perhaps every administrator should have a Knoppix CD on reserve."

Comments

Why is this a story?

[darkmeridian]

This guy should not be a sys-admin. First, he uses an IDE cable that is out of spec in a production server. Then he tries to install GRUB but doesn't read the paramters correctly and deletes his partition table. Knoppix is not really the story here; rather, the story is the fact that this guy does really dumb things. He did not even have the information on the system backed up.

This is more a cautionary tale more than anything else.

The lesson I learned from this...

[TrollBridge]

...is that I can do stupid things without taking backups, and maintain my self-ascribed "battle-hardened admin" status, with only a single Knippix CD.

I'm sorry folks, but this story should serve as an example of what NOT to do.

Heroic?

[SpecBear]

This guy screwed up, period.

If you're incompetent enough that overcoming the consequences of that incompetence is considered an act of heroism, then you really need to find another line of work.