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I've lost everything and I don't know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn't pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve never used Slax but it should, boot the liveUSB and enter terminal.

The general process is:

  • Boot to live Slax
  • Mount your install
  • Mount /proc, /sys, /dev
  • Enter the chroot
  • Check if networking is working
  • Attempt to run commands in your chroot
  • Exit the chroot
  • Unmount everything
  • Boot back to your install

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot