i'm running Mandrake 8.1, and i think i have to re-install - it looks like RPMdrake is buggered up, and i can't upgrade rpm at all because of circular dependencies. So, i want to re-install - I THINK. i figure that i might as well upgrade to Mdk8.2 in the process, largely because i can't afford to go out and buy SuSE. Here's where i run into a few snags. What do i have to keep to keep my work environment *more-or-less* consistent? The linux box is not a main workstation, since i'm generally more comfy with Win2k. But it is the file server. i have a /home partition that is formatted in ReiserFS, and a /var/ftp directory that is mounting /dev/hdb0, a single 20Gb ReiserFS partition. Other than that, i think that the only thing i really care about is some game servers, but those are trivial to reinstall.
So, i have a phobia of re-setting up both Samba and Proftpd - they were easily enough of a pain the first time around. And i'd rather not lose all my users. IS there a simple list of what i should save? ...or... is there an easy way to make Mandrake clean its mess up with rpm, so that i can go back and start over? (A side question - my RPM database shows two versions of openssl installed (openssl-0.9.5a-8mdk and openssl-0.9.6b-1mdk). Is there any way to erase ONE of these packages?) Chris R. ======== Lumen Redundas "To Cast The Light Of Knowledge On The Already Well-Known" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
