On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:02:02PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > 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). > As tom I ran mkisofs -R -o tom.iso /home/tom and burnt the iso. It fit on one cd. Apparently when I put it back I made a mistake. I have just run chown -R tom:tom tom from /home and then chown -R tom:tom .* from /home/tom and now everything works.
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