If you do re-install, you should have all your mail, etc. saved, as long as
you don't mess with your /home partition (you did make a separate /home,
didn't you?). Note to all newbies--always make a separate /home partition,
so if you do have to re-install, you can save your settings, backups, etc.
there. If you don't reformat /home, you will still have that stuff.
eryl
On Friday 27 July 2001 22:29, John wrote:
> Hey gang,
>
> <sigh>...I think I've really screwed up this time. I thought I'd go into
> Drakfont, and remove a mess of fonts I never use. It was going real easy,
> but apparently it went too easy. I figured I'd reboot just for the heck of
> it and now, I can't get xwindows to start. Why?...heh...no font for it.
> I tried to fix things with 'upgrade', but that doesn't work, so now all I
> have is the cli staring me in the face, but can't get into xwindows.
> Does anyone out there feel like holding my hand and walking me through a
> fix or am I best off just reinstalling? (I hope I don't have to
> reinstall...I've got a few e-mails saved and I really need to have them,
> and I haven't figured out how to do backups with Linux yet...yes, I've read
> man dump, man tar, man etc, etc...too technical(?) to understand, for me at
> least)
> Thanks for any help, y'all be good,
>
> John
>
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