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Netboot enables you to boot in a rescue environment. From there, you can usually mount your disk, do some basic tests, and fix mistakes. Not as efficient as a
by Wilya 13y ago
Netboot enables you to boot in a rescue environment. From there, you can usually mount your disk, do some basic tests, and fix mistakes.
Not as efficient as a direct console access, but for the occasional "Oh , I just firewalled myself" moment, it's enough.
- josephby 13y agoThanks; so basically if you bork your box your options are (1) netboot, and failing that (2) reinstall the OS. Reasonable enough, for the price. I suppose that this is why we have Chef and Puppet
- patrickaljord 13y agoI once firewalled myself and asked for help, a technician re-opened port 22 for me after a few hours (you can get instant support if you pay but it was for dev so I didn't care).