On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:10:11 -0400 Jerry McBride
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:21:15 -0400 Joel Hammer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> ---snip---
>
> > What if I hose my machine? This machine double boots. Could I
> > easily reinstall the old glibc?
> >
A little advance planning would be good here. You are preparing to
play Russian roulette with more than one loaded chamber.
1. You need a backup system
2. Harddrives are cheap. Get an extra, if needed. Here's Collins'
almost foolproof way of doing maintenance.
a. Create an extra partition (or 2 if you are using a /boot
partition).
b. Clone your existing, working distro to the new partition(s). If
you like,
I can send you my simple shell script which you can modify for
your
root fs structure. After cloning, modify the new partion's fstab
to match.
c. Create a Lilo/grub stanza to boot the new partition(s). Update
Lilo, if
using Lilo.
d. Verify that the new system will boot and run.
e. Create or update a Lilo/grub boot disk and verify that this will
boot
everything you need.
f. Do your maintenance, or install a new distro, or whatever. With a
new distro, decline the option to install a boot manager. Do
that job
manually.
g. If you roll snakeyes, you know how to recover.
Enjoy,
--
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla
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