Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

[Robert Himmelmann]

Rob Wood wrote: Hi Both, Can I strongly reccomend a spare PC to practice Linux on so you don't mess up your working system. I have done this several times and have learned this lesson the hard way. This way you can still use e-mail and web on the working system to get things sorted out.   A spare PC is the way to go! I have just made a major blunder on my Linux practice box and luckily I have this working system with which to access information to try and sort it out.   Watch the postings for "Major blunder"   Cheers Woodsey Another possibillity is to separate operating system and user data. Just make another partition with /home and maybe one with /etc. If you have any problem, just reinstall your distribution, configure the partition table and reinstall all packages you use. Under SuSE you can also export a list with all the packages installed. This way I used the same /home directory over about 10 installations in half a year :) Happy Hacking +-------------------------------------------------------+ |If you don't know what 'Happy Hacking' means, read     | |the book 'Free as in Freedom', published under         | |http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/index.html     | +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Use free software only. See                            | |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html             | +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Microsoft Word attachments.    | |For more information, see:                             | |http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+