>The only good way of doing this is back up as much stuff as you think you >absolutely need and a little bit more. Reformat the hard disks and >reinstall debian from scratch. > >Slackware is not upgrade friendly, particularly the older version.
I should have given a bit more information. Since the user disk space is mounted on other machines, the situation is not very bad. We probably just need to save /etc/passwd, /etc/printcap, and our X11 configuration files. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/terry/pkg : uname -a Linux palm 2.0.0 #1 Mon Sep 9 19:25:59 GMT 1996 i586 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/terry/pkg : cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /proc proc defaults 1 1 quake:/var/mail /usr/mail nfs hard quake:/export/freeway /export/freeway nfs hard quake:/export/dumbo /export/dumbo nfs hard seal:/felix /felix nfs hard seal:/oscar /oscar nfs hard /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro [EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/terry/pkg : -- terrence brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://rana.usc.edu:8376/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .