For me, my high bar that I have yet to beat, was the time I pivoted the running OS (ubuntu) into RAM over SSH so I could unmount and image the boot drive without rebooting and loading a live USB (Which would have required a ticket with my provider to enable IPMI)

  • Antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl
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    7 hours ago

    Oh so many fun adventures, too much to count… But a few nice ones:

    • HDD died, so ran a desktop system over network from a NAS (nfs) without HDD… for months.
    • Rebuilding a corrupted system (any bit advanced tools wouldn’t start anymore, like apt).
    • Custom bootable live cd based on Linux From Scratch (around 2002).
    • Anything related to Kerberos and NFS4.
    • Replacing syscalls to run software from a ramdrive that would otherwise not work.
    • Recently using debootstrap to install Kubuntu with a ZFS root, which went surprisingly smooth and pretty easy.

    I love Linux for all these insane possibilities.