Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread bigoperm
Kevin, Thanks for the advice - this is what I was thinking, actually. I have full backups of /etc, /var, and /home. Is it enough to re-install Sarge (formatting all of the disks), and copying my backups back over? Should that just work? Thanks jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread bigoperm
Doug, I figured I'd get thie question :-) After my upgrade to Etch, my network card no longer works (it's a Xircom PCMCIA card (cardbus)). I've searched the message boards for solutions, but can't find anything that solves my problem. Unfortunately, I don't have time to figure out what's wrong

Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread bigoperm
I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge (over Etch) without using any data? My intuition tells me all I need to do is skip the partition phase of the install, and things should be okay; ho