Grazie Enrico! To the "funny guys"! I am determined to learn Debian, and one day I'll go off, into the mountains, dig me some ore, and build me a Debian from scratch! (As they, no doubt, could! HA!).
Seriously--some years ago I got fed up with MS Windows and since I heard about the free Linux, I went and bought me the first one on the shelf--a Debian. On the box it promissed that it would be the last OS I would ever buy, since I could update any time there was a new version, etc., etc.. Nowhere it said I had to become a techie. I stuck to Debian (with minor side-trips to Mandrake and such), learned a bit over the years--just a bit, since I don't get to use the computer all that often--, but still have not become a techie, which definitely is not a plus, as Debian is being built by the techies for the techies. And I still think that an online diagnostic tool would be a great thing to have, even for the techies who, without a doubt, could build Debian from scratch. What with configuring sound, updating the new versions of kernel, and such. And such a tool could be, at the same time, while diagnosticking, made such a way that it would explain all the issues involved without having to be an AI. What profit is there in making the life of non-techies not easier? Consider how handicapped we are already! What the guys before Enrico were refering to was perhaps my dream project (a link from "Creating Peace" at www.modelearth.org/peace.html), actually a project made for Debian experts who could help with "distributed computing"--www.modelearth.org--please read, and give an intelligent feedback/critique (difficult?, how difficult to hook up all the computers?, is it being done already somewhere?, etc.). --- Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:16:57PM -0800, Mr. Jan > Hearthstone wrote: > > > While there are none such yet, what files and how > (what commands? > > where to write them?) should I back up > (automatically, over-write) on > > startup and shutdown, so that all I would have to > do would be to > > re-install and just simply over-write the needed > files, if need be? > > In which list should I really ask about this? > > Thanks! > > Thank you, respectfully - Mr. Jan Hearthstone. > > Please forget the funny guys that can't find where > the real question is > in your mail. > > You can backup your package selection with: > dpkg --get-selections > file.txt > and then reselect the packages you had in the > previous install with: > dpkg --set-selection < file.txt > > All the configurations are in /etc: you can make a > backup with: > tar zcvf etc.tar.gz /etc > and restore it with: > tar -C / -xvf etc.tar.gz > > And all the user's data are in /home, which you can > backup and restore > like /etc. > > E-mail inboxes, MySQL databases and other shared > data is in /var. > Depending on how you use your system you may want to > make a backup of > that as well. > > > If you're just learning, you probably only need to > backup your home; > after some reinstalling you'll figure out what else > you want to preserve > to make your reinstallations easier. > > You'll also find out that things are not that easy > to break if you don't > stop learning :) > > > Ciao, > > Enrico > > -- > GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc ===== If we,the people, were sincere about wanting Peace, then we would spend more on active creation of Peace than what we spend on the military.Legalize the Right to Sleep! http://www.modelearth.org/sleepright.htmlhttp://www.MODELEARTH.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
