Hi all,
Thanks for the advice (re: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/09/msg00988.html )
What I ended up doing was taking a Gentoo LiveCD I had laying around, booting off of that, setting hda3 to a mount point under the gentoo system, configuring sshd (with some help from others) to allow root login, and then tarring up home, ftping it to a windows box with generous hard drive sapce, and also grabbing /etc/passwd, group, shadow and my smb configuration stuff.
Now I'm reinstalling Debian Sarge from the netinstall cd on this PowerEdge, and its asking me if I want to use grub. I presume if I say no, it'll asking me if I want to use LILO... which should I use? This is not going to be a dual-boot machine, by the way.
I'm gonna repartition things properly too -- stick home on another partition, etc.
Then I'm going to get to try to recover my my old home and user information.
Thanks
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