Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): > On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:35AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > That at least got me the menu items I was looking for. > > I'm about to do a reinstall from scratch for other problems. More later. > > The great thing about Debian, is that you *don't* have to do a > reinstall. What problem are you having that makes you think you need to > reinstall?
Well I install on my other partition (ie flipping back and forth) because I don't backup my system. (I only backup any configuration files that I modify.) Therefore I need to know that I can reinstall the system from scratch and that I have any and all of the packages that I preserve from version to version (xtoolwait springs to mind because this hasn't been supported since squeeze). Also I need to know that I can install non-Debian/non-free stuff which was previously installed when the system was in an earlier state. The fresh install then becomes my default system, though I upgrade the other partition occasionally. At the moment I'm stuck with a single jessie installation because I can't yet afford to part with wheezy on the other partition. I would like to see if jessie will run as fast as wheezy if I install it afresh in an ext4 partition (though I fear the worst). Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150604200803.GA17015@alum