[newbie] problem reinstalling Linux

1999-12-21 Thread Henryk Kowalski
I'm using a Compaq Prolinea 166 w/ 2 GB HD. I would like to do a re-install (same version) of mandrake linux on top of the existing install. I do not want to reformat/repartition the HD because I have separate partitions for /home /local and I don't want to lose the stuff in there. I just wa

[newbie] Help w/ recovering from errors caused by crash

1999-12-21 Thread Henryk Kowalski
Hello. My system recently was powered off while running X. (Uh oh) After reboot and (auto)running fsck I seem to be missing some of the kde files (system complains about kdmrc during boot up). I believe I can recover from that by reloading the rpm for KDE (Please correct me if I'm wrong). I can