On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:31:48AM +0000, michael wrote: > I have a system I've hosed and I wish to reinstall the 'etch' o/s. The > current set up is > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 274M 126M 134M 49% / > tmpfs 1007M 0 1007M 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10M 84K 10M 1% /dev > tmpfs 1007M 0 1007M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda5 1.9G 48M 1.7G 3% /boot > /dev/hda10 2.8G 1.8G 1.1G 62% /data > /dev/hda11 11G 1.1G 9.0G 11% /home > /dev/hda9 449M 25K 425M 1% /tmp > /dev/hda7 4.6G 1.8G 2.7G 40% /usr > /dev/hda6 5.5G 927M 4.4G 18% /var > /dev/hdc 551M 551M 0 100% /media/cdrom0 > > so does this sound sensible: > > 1) backup /home and /data to another machine - note any configuration that affect /etc (or backup /etc for later reference) like email setup, network setup, ... - do 'dpkg --get-selections > mypackages' for later use - maybe backup /etc/apt/sources.list > 2) boot from netinst CD - do custom partitioning - just reformat /var,/usr,/tmp,/boot,/ - save /home, /data > 5) complete install - do 'dpkg --set-selections < mypackages' for setting packages - do 'aptitude dselect-upgrade' to install all packages > 6) run apt-get update/install
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