Mininal skills

Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2012 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 4 10:19:40 UTC 2020


On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 09:39, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 09:04:45 +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> >Install, uninstall, break, fix, reinstall, configure.
>                      ^^^^^ :D
>                      I don't know what this is. Never happened to me.
>
> For those who "decide" to "break", first becoming familiar with backup
> strategies might be a good idea.

You missed the "do it in a VM first". If you've never broken a system
maybe it's because you haven't tried hard.

By being able to use virtualisation, one also picks other skills. I've
learnt a lot by using qemu, setting up virtual serial consoles,
virtual interfaces, ssh forwarding, etc. Things you can not usually do
on bare metal.

-- 
Ottavio Caruso


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