On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: > > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, > > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic > > disc failure (still in waranty it turns out). > > > > The good news, is that I have Amanda runing every night, so I really > > don't think I will lose anything. However I have a question about > > how to recover from this. > > > > I plan on restoring the complete amanda backup of the disk to > > another disk, on a running machine. So far so good. At that point > > I _think_ I should be in good shape, except for boot blocks, right? > > > > So, given that I was using liol, what should I do to restore the boot > > blocks? > > Once you've copied the data back onto the new drive just boot from a > rescue disc or a Debian install disc and re-run lilo. In the case of the > Debian install disc (Woody), you'll want to do either: > > rescue root=/dev/yourrootpartition > > or > > rescbf24 root=/dev/yourrootpartition > No, it's a 2.4 serries.
BTW, the disk is resiserfs formated, does that represent a problem? The reason I want to do it this way, rather than a reinstall is, I hade pretty much the last version of Gnome 1.4, which I really love, and I _HATE_ Gnome 2 so much I will probably dfect to the KDE camp eventually. Thanks for the help, I geuss this is a weekend project. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]