On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 03:37:06PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a relatively new user who has been learning Linux and Debian by experimenting > with a test machine I've set up. Like many newbies, I've gone in over my > head--installing backports, trying my hand at compiling my own kernel, etc. > > I've now hosed things a bit in a couple of places, and I'd like to start afresh with > a perfectly clean woody installation--wiping out all of my config files, > reinstalling all packages from stable debs. > > Is there a good way to do this, short of reinstalling from scratch? > > In short, what I want to do is "apt-get > make-debian-look-the-way-it-did-right-after-I-finished-installing" or something > similar.
If that's all you want to do, then why not just do a fresh reinstall? > > Is such a magic bullet possible, or should I just go ahead and reinstall? (This is a > test machine, so there's nothing too critical on it--just a few 10s of gigs of MP3 > files I'd have to reload.) > Oh... I see... this is when it's handy to have a partition to move them to. There are some nice linux based GUI HD re-partition programs out there. I'm sure it can all be done "by hand" but if you're a newbie (like I am) then why not go with what works for now... Anywya.. I once had a situation like yours and what I did was actually threw in a Mandrake 9.0 installation disk, rebooted, resized the partitions, then rebooted - prior to actually installing Mandrake. It has a really nice re-partitioning scheme that allows you to resize partitions without loosing data on existing partitions, but obviously you don't want to complete the installation. > Thanks, > > Charles. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
