Hey, Fediverse!
How's your weekend going?
I'm planning to update my operating systems during the holidays, let's hope I don't destroy everything 😊
@ondiz be careful! i updated my laptop (encrypted disk) to linux 4.19 and now it says:
"Volume group not found, cannot process it"
so now i have to choose to boot "with linux 4.9.0" from grub 😕 i have it pending to solve
@jartigag Argh! Now I'm afraid 😱
@ondiz i wasn't. that was the problem 😂 but maybe you should.. 👻
anyway, that's because of the encryption, and i'll probably have to remake the partition table or something like that.. no idea, but sure it has a solution.
if you don't mess with encrypted disks, i don't think you'll have any trouble
* install debian from netinstall with almost no tasksel (ok, this requires some accepting of default values and a couple of personal choices)
* put a public key in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
* run ansible to install everything I need and do all systemwide configuration
* login as my user and run mr checkout to clone all repositories with my projects, data (git-annex) and dotfiles (vcsh) to configure whatever is left to be configured per-user
Up to now I've only done it to configure a new machine / change hard disk, and that was completely stress-free; I guess that in cases that are not planned there would be a bit more stress, but much less than the alternatives.
Of course, this approach only works with a linux machine and in my setup requires being used to use ssh with a key (this is usually a big source of stress when my SO needs to access my data/project repositories :( )