Re: [Re: [Re: Can i possibly do this? If not, what r my alternatives]]

2003-03-01 Thread Kapil Khanna
Joe, Yes thats what i was thinking too. Thanks for direction. Cheers! --Kapil Joe Polk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm sorry I didn't address the external drive. Yes, I would get the drive setup and create a partition. I would then tar up my /usr directory. Then remove everything from /usr but I wou

Re: [Re: Can i possibly do this? If not, what r my alternatives]

2003-03-01 Thread Joe Polk
I'm sorry I didn't address the external drive. Yes, I would get the drive setup and create a partition. I would then tar up my /usr directory. Then remove everything from /usr but I would think you'll need to leave /usr there but empty. Then simply mount the new /usr to /dev/. You'll need an entry

Re: [Re: Can i possibly do this? If not, what r my alternatives]

2003-03-01 Thread Kapil Khanna
Joe, Thanks for the suggestions. Well i am using the laptop as a server so it will always be connected on the network. >From reading your suggestions i thought maybe buying an external hard drive could be a solution. Assume i have an external hard drive what should my next steps be: 1) Format the d