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Well it was more like a temporary duct tape, but I "installed" a copy of Ubuntu in RAM from the running Ubuntu system so that I could "boot" (pivot_root) into it without restarting it
All because I didn't want to wait on a ticket for my dedicated server provider to hook in a KVM LOL
(See my meme post I posted to c/linuxmemes a few weeks back for more info)
This is god-tier duct tape…
I love Linux