Hi, before you do that reinstall then I hardily advice you to backup your home directory. Hth -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Glenn at home Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 4:52 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: re-installing Debian I chose the default partition setup when I installed Debian. But I am sure it is on the same partition, because I just do cd /home from / and I am in home. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 11:34 AM Subject: Re: re-installing Debian It depends, Glenn, on where your /home is. In the Fedora installation HOWTO we recommend creating a separate partition for /home exactly for this reason. So, if you've done that, you simply don't reformat /home. If, on the other hand, /home is simply a directory under / (or some other system related partition), the answer is "no." Glenn at home writes: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
