On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:48:59 -0900 Ethan Benson <Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:58:36PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > Weird - this is exactely what happened to me two weeks ago - I was just > > doing > > some simple scans of the hard disc and reiserfs found some bugs. It then > > completely wiped /var. /var/lib/dpkg was screwed (along with everything else > > in /var) so I was reduced to reinstalling. Seeing as I track woody, and have > > potato disks and a 56k modem connection, it has taken some time to get back > > to normal. > > > > Sorry - no choice but to reinstall from scratch. > > /usr/bin/yes make backups\!\!\! I'm a student = have no money for backup devices. Plus I'm still really pissed off that I bought a 10gig 7200 rpm seagate about 3 days before a big thread in here on how unreliable seagates are. Agh! Plus I have no IDE slots left so would have to buy a SCSI = very expensive. poo :-( Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing