First of all, I wanted to mention here that I was going through some of the messages I have saved since I first installed Debian, and it is wonderful how I have gotten so much help from this list, even though it seems that I still have a lot to learn. I have been trying to fix my broken Debian since I really messed it up with a failed attempt at upgrading. I did: apt-get dist-upgrade and now I get a kernel panic: attempt to kill init and above that it reads: modprobe error invalid line 237 in init.conf or something like that. And I have looked at line 237, and even tried remming it out, with # and it still does not work. I know someone who was going to try and log on with SSH, but he cannot get through my router. So it seems that that option is out. So I was wondering if I can just re-install Debian without losing my files in /home/ftp/etc/pub? Thanks for any ideas. Glenn
