Re: Disk drive: going, going, ...
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 09:29:09AM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: If you want to get back up and running fast, do dpkg --get-selections /usr/local/dpkg_packages. Then, when you reinstall, skip all of the initial dselect stuff until you do dpkg --set-selections /usr/local/dpkg_packages. All of the packages that you had on your old system will be automagically selected in dselect for you! Thanks, good idea. Unfortunately, my drive died very soon after I posted my first inquiry. I will be purchasing a new one this week. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk drive: going, going, ...
Hi, I an going to do a re-installation of Windows and Debian and planned on backing up the /etc directory. My /home and /usr/local are on a second drive so will remain intact. What else on the / partition might need to be saved? I don't have any databases or anything out of the ordinary (that I know of, or remember) I scanned through dpkg -l | less to see if any installed package may need special treatment, or that I made extensive changes to, but found none. Where else to look? Thanks, here's my current fs layout. pc1:/# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 792195547457203814 73% / /dev/hdb1 595163232770331651 41% /usr/local /dev/hdb2 495746 75221394922 16% /home /dev/hdc470728470728 0 100% /cdrom pc1:/# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 850 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 125100768+ 6 FAT16 dev/hda2 *26 228818496 83 Linux /dev/hda3 229 4318184966 FAT16 /dev/hda4 432 634818496 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 619 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 305614848+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 306 559512064 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 560 619120960 82 Linux swap -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACORN techie http://www.acorn.net AOL/IM Jim Foltz
Re: Disk drive: going, going, ...
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 08:48:06AM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: Hi, I an going to do a re-installation of Windows and Debian and planned on backing up the /etc directory. My /home and /usr/local are on a second drive so will remain intact. What else on the / partition might need to be saved? I don't have any databases or anything out of the ordinary (that I know of, or remember) If you want to get back up and running fast, do dpkg --get-selections /usr/local/dpkg_packages. Then, when you reinstall, skip all of the initial dselect stuff until you do dpkg --set-selections /usr/local/dpkg_packages. All of the packages that you had on your old system will be automagically selected in dselect for you! -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
