[newbie] Don't mess with /etc

2003-03-08 Thread Paul
Hello all, I thought to be smart, but bit myself in the nose. I intend to go for Mdk 9.1 when it comes available. I remembered that the best thing to do is format / and /usr at least, to make the setup as clean as possible. Of course, one would leave /home alone. I have separate partitions for

Re: [newbie] Don't mess with /etc

2003-03-08 Thread civileme
On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:39 am, Paul wrote: Hello all, I thought to be smart, but bit myself in the nose. I intend to go for Mdk 9.1 when it comes available. I remembered that the best thing to do is format / and /usr at least, to make the setup as clean as possible. Of course, one

Re: [newbie] Don't mess with /etc

2003-03-08 Thread Paul
In reply to civileme's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 06:54:43 -0900: Is there no easy way to preserve all kinds of settings and configs from /etc other than selecting and backing up files by hand? Well, of course many files in /etc are needed when / is mounted read-only before any other