> Thanks! I will be testing this (and a few other things) just as soon > as I work my courage up to try a reboot. I know you're supposed to > test one thing at a time. This situation doesn't really allow that. :-/ Can you not find the space to create images or dumps, so that you can try again if need be. Or do you have a massive root partition. As root you could. Backup / likely with (check if root is /dev/sda in /etc/fstab and you may need /var, /usr too) /bin/dd if=/dev/sda bs=32k | /bin/gzip > /home/dave/sda-backup.gz If you have problems boot the cd mount your home and restore / with /bin/cat /home/dave/sda-backup.gz | /bin/gunzip | /bin/dd bs=32k of=/dev/sda Or use clonezilla -- ________________________________________________________ Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. ________________________________________________________
