gene heskett wrote: ... > Thanks. when someone ignores common sense after frequently shooting themself in the foot there's not much more i can do for them.
i suggest a system management approach which involves snapshots (use git on the whole thing if you have to or some partition image copier or something). when you have a working setup, get that snapshot so you can always fall back to it. the other important part is being able to get to a reliably repeatable state from a cold boot. always keep those working setups backed up. otherwise you are just wasting your time (repeatedly it seems to me). songbird