On 12 Feb, Grant Parnell wrote: > You might have some short term luck with upgrading to RH7.2 but basically > you've screwed it up. It's possibly recoverable but the effort to do so is > going to be more than starting afresh.
Yep. I spent 3 hours trying to repair it, and failing, yet it took only 30 mins to install RH 7.2 - plus about 4 hours last night reinstating 95% of the local mods. Some surprising omissions from the RH install: no Window Maker; no rxvt. > I'd start backing up the data you need to somewhere. If you have /home on > it's own partition, put all your stuff in there and do a fresh install > with manual partitioning. You can then select which partitions to format > and simply skip the /home partition. Yep, that's what I did. I'm *so* glad /usr/local was on a separate partition, too. I'd recommend that to everyone. > I'd suggest writing down what's in /etc/fstab (or output of "mount") , > backing up all of /etc and stuff you want in /home. I took a copy of all /etc (since I hadn't cvs committed the current status before the destruction, since I'm still tweaking my cvs-etc scripts). Basically, though, it was pretty painless. Tonight: tweak terminfo/termcap, and recompile a more modern kernel, chucking in CD-RW support. I think I'll be fully back in action, then. Regards, luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
