On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:02 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > Sitting at my misconfigured system today trying to remember > the "remount" option to mount so I could remount root as read/write > and fix the fstab, it occured to me that the world could really > use a small pocket reference guide with all the tidbits of > information you need to know to get your computer back to the > point where you can do google searches to find the rest of what you > meed to know :-). > > Anyone know if such a thing exists? > > Obviously the remount option is one of the tidbits I'd want. > > Since you can't get to google without a network, I'd also > want pointers to where the network config info is scattered > around the system (resolv.conf, sysconfig/network, etc). > > What else might be good to go in such a guide (and still allow > it to fit on a page or two that can fold into your pocket)? > > Always remember: Without google, linux itself would be impossible :-). Have you looked at O'Reilly's "Linux Pocket Guide"? - Brian