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by mverwijs 4067 days ago
> At its core, your OS is just a bunch of files

"But, you NEED to run the installer on that (bare metal) server!" Nope, I can just boot from knoppix (remember?) and mount the disk and run debootstrap on it.

Every so often I run into programmers and sysadmins that believe these things are a kind of magic. They're not. They're just files on a disk.

Love this presentation. Thank you!

edit: s/mount knoppix/boot from knoppix/