On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian > you "With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration data > stored on a couple of floppies to completely rebuild a working system > from scratch." > > Is there a list somewhere of what those configuration data are? /etc and everything below that is a good candidate. In Debian all packages are supposed to put their configuration data in (subdirectories of) the /etc directory. /var has theoretically only dynamic data, but some of that may be quite valuable nevertheless; /var/www for instance is where (most) apache configurations store webpages. IIRC bind puts DNS data in /var/named. If you keep important mail in your inbox instead of saving it to a mail folder, it's probably in /var/spol/mail/$USER Of course, I left out user home directories, as they (should) contain no data that is critical to rebuild a working system. It greatly depends on the user how many floppies you'd need to back up that data. Cheers, Joost -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null