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Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by smcl »

lproven wrote: post #19
rob74 wrote: post #18

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Ok... and here I was thinking that a single word without vowels in Slovenian (Trst, the Slovenian name of the Italian city Trieste) was remarkable. Guess I have to reconsider that...

Yugoslavia was famed for its critical vowel shortage: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v... ... However, speaking as a resident of Czechia, it's worse here. Consider that quote. The word "čtvrť" means _quarter_, as in Latin Quarter or Arab Quarter. It differs from the word "čtvrt" (meaning a quarter of a pizza, say) by the half a diacritic on the final letter T: ť. That diacritic modifies th…

Bonus complication while we're talking Czech orthography - "ch" is considered to be one letter. Have been stumped on some křižovky because of that.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by teddyh »

fho wrote: post #12
GekkePrutser wrote: post #4

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Yeah first thing I thought. It also sounds like it overlaps in functionality. I've used GRML for rescue stuff for many years. But this might be interesting too. One thing I'd love to have is to preload since defaults into the image. Like launching an SSH Daemon with a given private key so I can fix a system without a monitor

Iirc there was a time where grml just was not up to date anymore? I somewhat remember that it did not support btrfs at some point.

Grml had a bit of a gap between the december 2018 release and the june 2020 release.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by lproven »

smcl wrote: post #20
lproven wrote: post #17

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"Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč." 7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.

Yeah it's a bit of a tongue twister if you have to say this out loud. I'm just continually encountering words I've never heard and either being completely lost or trying to relate them to something I already know. Like in that sentence: - don't know what a "žbrnd" is - "zdrhl" is the l-participle of some verb that I don't know - "hrd" is not something I've seen (is it related to "hrdina" - hero - maybe?) - "Brd" no i…

You're good! Better than me, but then I started old. 46 is a hell of an age to tackle your first Slavic language.

There's a breakdown here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/czech/comments/1l3tdw/new_longest_c...

Brd, Smrk and Krč are places. "Zdrhl": escaped; "hrd": proudly; "srn" is a doe, a female deer.

Nobody seems to know "žbrnd", but this is admittedly purposely difficult language, showing off how much is possible without vowels.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by Arch-TK »

painchoc wrote: post #15

How does this compare to SystemRescue ? Hrmpf has seen no release for the past 8 months https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf/releases where SystemRescue is updated regularly https://www.system-rescue.org/Changes-x86/ .

First off... It's a system rescue tool... Have there been any massive advancements in the state of the art of system rescue in the past 8 months that need to be integrated into this tool?

Secondly, since this is void mklive based, whenever you run it, you get the current state of packages. This means that the actual programs are never really going to be out of date at time of building. The project would only need to be updated to update the few boot utilities which are included in the iso, or to update the LTS kernel included.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by spijdar »

Arch-TK wrote: post #24
painchoc wrote: post #15

How does this compare to SystemRescue ? Hrmpf has seen no release for the past 8 months https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf/releases where SystemRescue is updated regularly https://www.system-rescue.org/Changes-x86/ .

First off... It's a system rescue tool... Have there been any massive advancements in the state of the art of system rescue in the past 8 months that need to be integrated into this tool? Secondly, since this is void mklive based, whenever you run it, you get the current state of packages. This means that the actual programs are never really going to be out of date at time of building. The project would only need to…

To add a little to that second part, I'd say this is really meant to be "built on your own", following that brief example at the end of the README. The releases are more of a convenience thing.

You will need Void's package manager XBPS installed, though. It can be harmlessly installed on other distros and won't (shouldn't?) interfere with the host package manager.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by smasher164 »

CameronNemo wrote: post #3

FYI this ships with zfs modules precompiled, if you're into that sort of thing. https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf/commit/dcc35b75676f3...

Currently dealing with a zfs cachefile issue on my nas, where hrmpf has been instrumental in letting me backup data and regenerate a cachefile from my macbook.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by mnd999 »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #16
mnd999 wrote: post #6

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That is really useful. Having to build an archiso every time I accidentally pacman to a kernel version that breaks zfs is annoying. I’ve only done it twice but still.

Why not just build once and then keep the USB for emergencies?

I mean I do keep them but they get too old eventually and then they won’t mount the pool, or will only mount it read-only.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by morganvachon »

opk wrote: post #10

I'll be taking particular note of this rescue system on the basis of the identity of the person who has created it. They're someone I've come across more than once in the open source world and definitely have respect for. I'd also recommend mblaze which is the primary tool I use for reading mail.

Agreed, Leah is a great person and has been a boon to the Void community. In fact the entire Void team is full of amazing individuals, which is a big reason why it's (in my opinion) the best Linux distro overall.

Re: Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux

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Post by smcl »

lproven wrote: post #23
smcl wrote: post #20

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Yeah it's a bit of a tongue twister if you have to say this out loud. I'm just continually encountering words I've never heard and either being completely lost or trying to relate them to something I already know. Like in that sentence: - don't know what a "žbrnd" is - "zdrhl" is the l-participle of some verb that I don't know - "hrd" is not something I've seen (is it related to "hrdina" - hero - maybe?) - "Brd" no i…

You're good! Better than me, but then I started old. 46 is a hell of an age to tackle your first Slavic language. There's a breakdown here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/czech/comments/1l3tdw/new_longest_c... Brd, Smrk and Krč are places. "Zdrhl": escaped; "hrd": proudly; "srn" is a doe, a female deer. Nobody seems to know "žbrnd", but this is admittedly purposely difficult language, showing off how much is poss…

Ha nice - so I got one (almost) right :D

Anyway it's good to know I'm not the only one struggling through. Keep it up!

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