Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread John A Chaves
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just now checked and I don't have the file "Xservers.dpkg-old" in that > directory. > Are you sure that's where it is? I don't have any way to search for it > without a keyboard. I think that you only get the .dpkg-old file if y

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread John A Chaves
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 01:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry if this has been covered, search function gets no result... > I have been running sarge flawlessly since May 2004, doing regular apt-get > dist-upgrades. > Today, dist-upgrade included over 100 MBs of mostly KDE stuff, and oth

Re: how to recover data even when unable to mount?

2004-10-08 Thread John A Chaves
Take a look at e2salvage . It worked well for me in similar situations. John On Friday 08 October 2004 03:04 pm, tripolar wrote: > It appears my 120G harddrive is near-death. Being unable to boot I used a > knoppix cd to run smartd and /sbin/badblocks. > my hard