Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:12:59AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > > > In any case, I am done with my rants. If you want to repartition without > > reinstalling post a message here. By the way, don't ever forget the > > backups, and experiment with doing a selective restore, if not a full > > one, b

Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Johnson
> > In any case, I am done with my rants. If you want to repartition without > reinstalling post a message here. By the way, don't ever forget the > backups, and experiment with doing a selective restore, if not a full > one, before you embark on making major changes to your system. > > Good luck!

Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:48:41PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > Folks-- > > Its time to repartition my disks. The plan is to: > 1. Put all the user data I want to keep onto tape > 2. Install debian from scratch (including repartition) > 3. Restore .deb package database > 4. Re-fetch current .