Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 07:16 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 21:54 -0500, pjfjacks wrote: >> >>>Just wish I'd taken better notes along the way...it pains me greatly. >>>Everything but MIDI was working so well. Totally shameful as the XP system >>>hums right along ...this isn't right at all.. >>> >>>Phil J. >>> >>> >>> >>>Eh, I've wiped out my systems a bunch of times, and it's always a lot >>>faster to get your settings back the second time. >> >>phil, you are getting some very poor advice here, i am not sure why. >> >>system reinstalls are *NOT* the way to solve problems with linux. > > > Hey, > > I only said a reinstall might be a good idea as Phil had installed > Ubuntu (which worked perfectly AFAICT, except the MIDI thing which I > think was a config error), then added a Demudi source to his > sources.list which I don't think is supposed to work, and which really > hosed things (lost the network). > > So he asked me if a Ubuntu reinstall is the best way to go from here and > I said probably. Obviously don't reinstall if you have data you care > about! > > Maybe this was poor advice. However when I was a new Linux user and > really hosed things I often found a reinstall was teh quickest and > easiest way to get back to square one. > i'll second that ... a re-install can really learn you some fast lessons about linux, too. of course, re-installing is something i avoid like the plague now, but back when i was beginning .... man, i re-installed every other day. one of the things i learnt to do from this, which makes re-installing pretty painless if you've got a bunch of data and configurations, is to have your /home folder on a seperate partition. shayne
