Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
T wrote: Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in Debian to let you reinstall easily. So you have to go through the "10 times" approach -- it took me several (>=3) days to fully downgrade from Debian testing to Debian stable, after a single update command... Oh, wait, I still have "17 not upgrad

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-18 Thread T
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:07:51 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote: > >> " HOW TO REINSTALL DEBIAN FROM CD" > > Again, Debianites don't reinstall their systems (except in rare cases), > so it's not really a well-documented procedure. The short version is to > back up your /home dir

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-15 Thread Kent West
Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote: > i have been using debian sarge 3.1. all pkgs r works fine. few days > ago i have faced a prb duting booting. at that time i want to > reintsall my Debian from CD. i have downloaded this from online (minimal). Whatever problem you have, you probably don't need to reins

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote: Hi, i have been using debian sarge 3.1. all pkgs r works fine. few days ago i have faced a prb duting booting. at that time i want to reintsall my Debian from CD. i have downloaded this from online (minimal). there is no option abt reinstall or upgrade as there is

Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-15 Thread Meshbah Uddin Ahmed
Hi, i have been using debian sarge 3.1. all pkgs r works fine. few days ago i have faced a prb duting booting. at that time i want to reintsall my Debian from CD. i have downloaded this from online (minimal). there is no option abt reinstall or upgrade as there is a option in REDHAT. altho

Re: Debian Reinstall

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Richardson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 09-May-2001 Ronan O'Sullivan wrote: > > Hi there, > >I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed > >packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to > >know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to

Re: Debian Reinstall

2001-05-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:42:52PM +0100, Ronan O'Sullivan wrote: >I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed >packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to >know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to >the previous state

RE: Debian Reinstall

2001-05-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-May-2001 Ronan O'Sullivan wrote: > Hi there, >I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed >packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to >know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to >the previous state? > 2 steps:

Debian Reinstall

2001-05-09 Thread Ronan O'Sullivan
Hi there, I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to the previous state? rgds, ronan -- Murphy's law: "Anything that can go wr /bin/f