Rather than a pointless ramble about an unrelated process for a
completely unrelated distro, I'll offer something useful: if you can
be at Slug tomorrow night, I'll have an ubuntu livecd for you (if you
want - you may well be able to make your own much faster ;)

A livecd should be able to mount the partitions, and assuming you've
got your data on a different partition from the rest of the OS, should
be fairly painless to re-install without losing any data.

On 21/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 21 Jan, To: Sydney Linux Users Group wrote:
>  Any advice would be most welcome.

What I've done is copied the / filesystem onto a directory under my home
directory, and then I'll re-install from CD.  At least that way I can
compare configuration files that I've done against the default ones.

I'm currently tossing up though installing a different distro after this
disastrous experience with Debian/Ubuntu's upgrade system.  The whole
reason for trying it was the idea that it's upgrade system was good.

apt on FC5 or SuSE 10 might be a better choice, I'm thinking.

luke

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