On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real
why did you do that? if you have seperate partitions there is no need to back them up, just don't initialize them in the debian installer. mount them instead. debian does not blindly erase every partition, it lets you choose what to mkfs and what to just mount. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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