Another thought that sounds off-topic but might help you here. If you have a spare hard drive laying around, why not partition the thing to look like your main drive, and every two weeks or so (and before experimenting with new stuff like Ximian) plug the new drive into your system, mount the partitions, and 'cp -a' everything from your main drive to the new one. Then disconnect the new drive. Presto! You have an instant backup! If things go wrong, just switch IDE cables so the backup drive becomes the primary Linux drive and boot from it. If you don't have a spare drive, you might be able to get a used (pre-owned) one by going to the kind of electronics store that keeps old systems and parts thereof laying around. There is at least one such vendor in my area. I followed the Hard Disk Upgrade how-to at the Linux Documentation Project to upgrade my web server from a 25.5 Gb hard drive (due to my own error, / was 96% full) to a new 60 Gb drive. The How-To is a little dated, but still very useful. You should follow it. Be sure to check your /etc/fstab for any lines that start with 'LABEL=' and add labels (using e2label) to the appropriate disk partitions. If you then take the trouble to install Grub on the backup hard disk, you are good to go. The old drive will make a wonderful backup drive for my web server. You can use this concept too, even though it is a hassle to implement. It's a good way to learn fdisk, then formatting with different filesystems, and play with partitioning schemes. Thanks Bob On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 00:16, Gerry Tool wrote: > The day after XD2 was released, I installed it on my up2date RH9 system. > I marveled at the wonderful look and feel of the Gnome desktop, the > Evolution 1.4 and Mozilla 1.3. Everything looked beautiful. > > Then, day by day I found more and more things that didn't work right > anymore. It removed my Crossover Office menus from Gnome. It removed > Gimp from my KDE menu. It removed my OpenOffice.org menus from KDE. It > added two non-working icons to my KDE desktop - a .desktop file for my > home directory using Nautilus which refused to work, and a My Computer > icon ditto. Removing them worked as long as I didn't log into Gnome > again. That put them back onto the KDE desktop again. > > In general, it has confused both sets of menus. It uninstalled some > RHL9 programs and substituted its own versions for others, so now > up2date thinks I need to reinstall them, but I expect that XD2 will not > work correctly if I do. > > I am now about to start over with a fresh install of RHL9 and redo all > the customization that I did since installing RHL9 almost 2 months ago. > I hope I remember this the next time I'm tempted by hype about Ximian > desktop working with RH Linux. It may install, but it certainly is not > compatible. I recall doing a similar dumb thing with RHL 7.3. You > would think I would have learned. > > Has anyone else had similar problems? > > Gerry Tool -- Need help with computer hardware or software? I can take care of it in your home at very reasonable cost. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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