On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:25:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before shutting the old system down I burnt /home/tom to a cd. > Then I switched out the hardware, did a netinst with the stock > 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel. When netinst succeded I copied the > contents of the cd into /home. Voila, tom resurrected. > > I don't immediately see why this should not have worked > flawlessly. I'll puzzel it out and, in the meantime, login as > dummy. >
With what means did you backup /home? Were the permissions respected? Personally, I backup to a tarball then burn that tarball file to cd (split if need be). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
