nate said: > Gerald V. Livingston II said: >> I'm dumping an old P-90 so I can give the machine to a friend. >> >> When I am in single mode can I safely umount /usr and /var then link >> their >> new locations after I copy them over to one of the hard drives. This > > yes. I've done this tons of times, never had a problem. > > nate >
Thanks. I'm in the process now of uninstalling every package that's not needed. When I'm done I should be able to get it all moved back onto ine drive and have it bootable to console. I had all kinds of garbage -- X, mp3 files, every game available, etc. spread out over a 1G scsi and a 3G and 4G IDE drive. I'm apt-get and dpkg purging everything I can think of right now. What's amazing is that this system was taken down when potato was FROZEN, not released. I did get it connected to the network (it was a dial up box but had a NIC installed but not initialized -- added a stanza to 'interfaces' and it came right up) and when I di an update/upgrade there were 233 packages needing upgrade just to make it a "stable" version of potato. <grin> If I were at home I'd just transfer the files to my own machine. But, I don't want to transfer several hundreg meg over the T1 here at work out to the house. G -- Gerald http://www.phorce1.com http://www.buskatiers.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
