Brian, Well, I already did the re-install lastnight. I went ahead and formatted / and /usr, and just redid the whole deal. Thats always the best wasy to do it anyway.
But since you mentioned fixing the problems...... The problems I had were: 1- could not "su" 2- could not run program as root 3- could not login as root in CLI, just GUI 4- could not mount or umount as user All this came from an OS _upgrade_ that I did to fix a problem I had with my LILO due to dicking around with my partitions. I posted them and the best thing I got was to re-install. So I did. If you have a clue what could have fixed these, I'm sure a lot of ppl here would love to know. Dave On 15 Mar 2002 11:42:45 +1100 Brian Parish Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > yes, that's easy - just don't let the installer format /home or /usr > during the install. Choose expert mode and you'll get the option to > leave these as is. Note however that it's possible that this approach > will create some inconsistencies you may need to work around. e.g. If > you have applied updates, some settings in the paritions you leave > unformatted could possibly conflict, but you are unlikely to see > "serious" problems from this. > > If your need to reinstall is because of problems, maybe trying to fix > them is also an option. Plenty of help available here if so. > > HTH > Brian > > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 09:25, David wrote: > > I need to re-install OS. Can I do so without having to re-install all > > my apps? > > > > Is it possible to save some of my setting? > > > > If it matters my partitions table is as follows: > > > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda8 489992 299049 165643 65% / > > none 79456 0 79456 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/hda11 7218432 3329464 3522288 49% /home > > /dev/hda10 3020140 844508 2022216 30% /usr > > > > Also what is that partition @ mnt point "/dev/shm"? I didn't put that > > there. > > > > > > tia > > Dave > > > > -- > > > > ��������������������������������������������������� > > Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk > > KDE 2.2.1 Sylpheed 0.7.2 > > > > David L. Steiner > > Registered Linux User #262493 > > Homepage www.davidlsteiner.com > > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ��������������������������������������������������� > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > -- ��������������������������������������������������� Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk KDE 2.2.1 Sylpheed 0.7.2 David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepage www.davidlsteiner.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ���������������������������������������������������
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