On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:23:57 +0100
Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Ahh that explains it then. Get the gun I need shooting! I had two
> users and went down to one.
Load that sucker with an extra round, my friend, I did not know that
either. I have just always set up one user acco
>
> One thing to watch, though, is that if you have more than one user you
> *must* add the users back in the same order, or you will get a
> confusion of user ids - possible what caused the problem described
> above?
>
Ahh that explains it then. Get the gun I need shooting! I had two users an
On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 6:28 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
> > When you install Mandrake, you have the option of "use existing
> > partitions", and then you can choose to only format the system
> > partition, /.
> >
> > by leaving the /home partition intact, either Red Hat or Mandrake
> > will have a
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 12:25, ThinKer wrote:
> I am currently using Mandrake 9.0. I am looking to upgrade my system to
> either Mandrake 9.1 or Redhat 9.0 (I haven't decided yet).
After having Mandrake, you're going to be sorely disappointed with the
RedHat distro - both version 8.0 and the new ver
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:28:01 +0100
Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> I have tried this myself. I can say it has some pitfalls to avoid:
>
> 1) Make sure you don't give your self the same username as on the old
> system or you won't be able to log on.
> 2) All the files will be loc
>
> When you install Mandrake, you have the option of "use existing
> partitions", and then you can choose to only format the system
> partition, /.
>
> by leaving the /home partition intact, either Red Hat or Mandrake will
> have access to them. Of course, some of the config files and such may b
On 19 Jul 2003 22:25:35 -0400
ThinKer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
***please oh please clear your reply-to address in your mail client.
otherwise, replies don't go to the list, and then no one has a chance to
say "waitaminnit, don't listen to joe! he's an idiot!"***
> I am currently using Mandra
I am currently using Mandrake 9.0. I am looking to upgrade my system to
either Mandrake 9.1 or Redhat 9.0 (I haven't decided yet).
In either case, I would like to backup all my work and reinstall from
scratch. I mainly use this machine for coding and checking mail so I
only use Evolution, Netscape
