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