Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread John A Chaves
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this has been covered, search function gets no result... I have been running sarge flawlessly since May 2004, doing regular apt-get dist-upgrades. Today, dist-upgrade included over 100 MBs of mostly KDE stuff, and

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread John A Chaves
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just now checked and I don't have the file Xservers.dpkg-old in that directory. Are you sure that's where it is? I don't have any way to search for it without a keyboard. I think that you only get the .dpkg-old file if you

Re: how to recover data even when unable to mount?

2004-10-08 Thread John A Chaves
Take a look at e2salvage http://e2salvage.sourceforge.net/. It worked well for me in similar situations. John On Friday 08 October 2004 03:04 pm, tripolar wrote: It appears my 120G harddrive is near-death. Being unable to boot I used a knoppix cd to run smartd and /sbin/badblocks. my hard