[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( 8 Jul) | | | On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian | > you "With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration data | > stored on a couple of floppies to completely rebuild a working system | > from scratch." | > | > Is there a list somewhere of what those configuration data are? | | /etc and everything below that is a good candidate. In Debian all | packages are supposed to put their configuration data in (subdirectories | of) the /etc directory. | | /var has theoretically only dynamic data, but some of that may be quite | valuable nevertheless; /var/www for instance is where (most) apache | configurations store webpages. IIRC bind puts DNS data in /var/named. If | you keep important mail in your inbox instead of saving it to a mail | folder, it's probably in /var/spol/mail/$USER | | Of course, I left out user home directories, as they (should) contain no | data that is critical to rebuild a working system. It greatly depends on | the user how many floppies you'd need to back up that data. |
You probably would also want to keep everything under /var/lib/dpkg. It has all the info of what packages are installed on your system, etc. Also a 'dpkg --get-selections > somefile' would be a good idea as well. so you could do 'dpkg --set-selections < somefile' later on. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
