Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Johnson
In any case, I am done with my rants. If you want to repartition without reinstalling post a message here. By the way, don't ever forget the backups, and experiment with doing a selective restore, if not a full one, before you embark on making major changes to your system. Good luck! Well,

Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:12:59AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: In any case, I am done with my rants. If you want to repartition without reinstalling post a message here. By the way, don't ever forget the backups, and experiment with doing a selective restore, if not a full one, before you

Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:48:41PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: Folks-- Its time to repartition my disks. The plan is to: 1. Put all the user data I want to keep onto tape 2. Install debian from scratch (including repartition) 3. Restore .deb package database 4. Re-fetch current .debs

Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-23 Thread Rich Johnson
Folks-- Its time to repartition my disks. The plan is to: 1. Put all the user data I want to keep onto tape 2. Install debian from scratch (including repartition) 3. Restore .deb package database 4. Re-fetch current .debs 5. Restore user data and configuration data. My questions are: Is