From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp1.cableone.net ([24.116.0.227] helo=S1.cableone.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTXS6-0003SF-00 for ; Wed, 04 May 2005 23:55:06 -0400 Received: from desktop (unverified [24.119.159.108]) by S1.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S1) with ESMTP id 18788668 for ; Wed, 04 May 2005 20:54:54 -0700 Message-ID: <02bf01c55126$24ffacf0$6a00a8c0@desktop> From: "Glenn at home" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 22:54:31 -0500 Organization: Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 7, in=19, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.119.159.108 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Subject: re-installing Debian X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Glenn at home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 03:55:06 -0000 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