The systemrestore CD is a handy tool, but you are probably right in that it would not be that helpfull for you to have on hand. Making backups of your /home partition, and keeping notes on what you have done to configure your system would probably work out better for you. I would also configure urpmi to keep the files it downloads, and back them up as well. This would let you restore things without long download delays if the worst happens.
Yes
trying to remember to keep notes. Mostly I'm doing things after getting some instructions here, and keep the emails, and make notes there. Will also backup my downloads thanks for that suggestion.
You may also want to keep a printout of the "restoring your boot loader" instructions in your "notes folder", so you have it if you ever need it.
You will not have as many "repair" options this way, but you will have ones you know will work for you. If you deside you want to take the time to learn how to use more advanced tools in the future, you have that option. If you deside what you realy want is to use your system to get work done, that is good too.
I did the systemrecuecd anyway, after all.
For a lot of people on this list, "tinkering" with the computer, and solving computer problems, is the reasion they have the computer. Getting work done with it is secondary. The idea of re-installing the operating system just because you broke something holds no apeal. It is much more fun to figure out how we broke it, and fix it. If we can fix it without rebooting the system, so much the better. But we tend to forget that for most people, computers are tools that help they get their work done. (Getting work done on computers is just my excuse for buying more toys...)
Mikkel
I've reached the point where I'd like another computer for tinkering ... may just have to wait a bit before I can buy it. Chap in the shop suggested I build my own, but I don't know about that, having never even installed a card or anything.
Rosemary
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