From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp3.cableone.net ([24.116.0.229] helo=S3.cableone.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTq8r-0002Z9-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 19:52:29 -0400 Received: from desktop (unverified [24.119.159.108]) by S3.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S3) with ESMTP id 18734716 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 16:54:10 -0700 Message-ID: <02ea01c551cd$70281df0$6a00a8c0@desktop> From: "Glenn at home" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <02bf01c55126$24ffacf0$6a00a8c0@desktop> <20050505163404.GC26386@rednote.net> Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 18:52:03 -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 1, First 15, 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: 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 23:52:30 -0000 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" To: "Glenn at home" ; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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@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@freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup