[digest-mode reply] ON Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:26:37 -0400 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:18 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I don't know about there being a manual but one way is to have etc-update show you the differences - that shows what's being taken out and what's added.
That and full backups. A good idea, folks. Can save a lot of trouble. --------------------------------- fire-eyes, Yes! I have three drives, 120, 80, 120. I use swappable bays (~$10 US each) on the front of the computer. USB would be fine for #3, maybe even #2 or all. The last drive is a backup drive; room for 1 copy everything plus 2 copies of my largest partition but 1. WhinedoZZZe has a lotta parts: poor tools means need good organization. For Linux, I use a simplified: BootMagic in MBR (may replace w/grub), hda3 (inside 8GB 1024Cyl) = /boot, hda14 = 2G swap, hda15 = 37+G /, hdb4 (after 8G-limited extended for DOS) = 70+G, to mount as /70g (call it 'work'...). Basically, I keep all data on hdb4. Certainly all massive &/or crucial stuff gets copied there D*** quickly. Before *ANY* OS changes, or almost any installs in WhinedoZZZe, I back the affected part to hdd5, JIC it becomes aflicted. (~114 Actual Gig; hdd1 is tiny, hidden, F16 (bootable JIC hda & hdb get wonked) primary; "that's all, folks!") Bottom line: have 1-or-more DATA parts, best on another hd, keep/copy all -data- there, <8G, <1024Cyl /boot will boot *anywhere*, and back-up affected before lest aflicted by. Full and incremental! rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
