Hey folks! 10.2.8 rendered my machine at home unbootable (it would get into an endless loop at the autologin).
So... I took the Windoze solution: I went and reinstalled 10.2, using the archive and install option, and then running through all the updates from Software Update. I fixed some of the customizations I had, which were easy to fix, and then went into the Previous Systems folder and copied all the special Preference Panes etc. over to the new /Library folder etc. So far, so good. Now for the unixy stuff: I looked in /usr/local on the freshly installed boot partition, and noticed it was empty. So... I did a ditto to bring over everything from the old /usr/local folder. It /seems/ that most of my unix stuff is still in order. This makes me wonder, though: is there some sort of merge-old-and-new-stuff which works like Conflict Catcher used to? Is there a unix utility? Bill hoping that the machine doesn't suddenly start acting strange, and wanting to get rid of the old system stuff if possible. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
