On Thursday 28 March 2002 03:58 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> I think it is time to reinstall personally but I know someone who
> has been getting me to change hundreds of files for configuration
> of this and that just isn't going to be happy. :( Asides from that
> I am not able to do a backup yet as my NIC isn't working. SHIT!! so
> I end up losing some very important email from my 'stable system.
Well, I suspect 'hundreds of [config] files' is possibly an
exageration ;), but you should be regularly backing up changed config
files, and all of /home, and anything else you don't want to lose.
If that's not feasible, you should be at least saving changed
configs, and your /Mail and bookmarks files folders. I'm an advocate
of having a spare partition (/stor/) that I keep config files and a
copy of /home in. Then I don't bother with havin a separate /home
partition. MOF, I do fresh installs to one big 'ol '/' after
re-formatting it.
A re-install may not be neccessary tho. Try just putting in the
1st CD and doin an upgrade. A lot of times that'll fix things you
messed up, without rewriting (most all of) your changed configs, or
your mail and bookmarks, or anything else in /home. If a re-install
is needed, you can save your /home dir (don't format it), or like in
my case, I just move back in stuff from my backup /home. You will
need to have saved copies of your config files tho. If you don't have
any other place to put 'em, they'll probly fit on a floppy.
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