Re: Disk drive: going, going, ...

1999-08-09 Thread jfoltz
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 09:29:09AM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > If you want to get back up and running fast, do > dpkg --get-selections > /usr/local/dpkg_packages. Then, when you > reinstall, skip all of the initial dselect stuff until you do > dpkg --set-selections < /usr/local/dpkg_packages. A

Re: Disk drive: going, going, ...

1999-08-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 08:48:06AM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > Hi, > > I an going to do a re-installation of Windows and Debian and planned on > backing up the /etc directory. My /home and /usr/local are on a second > drive so will remain intact. What else on the / partition might need > to be saved

Disk drive: going, going, ...

1999-08-07 Thread Jim Foltz
Hi, I an going to do a re-installation of Windows and Debian and planned on backing up the /etc directory. My /home and /usr/local are on a second drive so will remain intact. What else on the / partition might need to be saved? I don't have any databases or anything out of the ordinary (that I kn