From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from concerto.rednote.net ([66.92.170.139]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTlv4-0005B1-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:21:58 -0400 Received: from concerto.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j45GY4ig026552 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 May 2005 12:34:04 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j45GY4Xi026551; Thu, 5 May 2005 12:34:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:34:04 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: Glenn at home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20050505163404.GC26386@rednote.net> Mail-Followup-To: Glenn at home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <02bf01c55126$24ffacf0$6a00a8c0@desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <02bf01c55126$24ffacf0$6a00a8c0@desktop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 2.6.10-1.770_FC3spksmp Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html Subject: Re: re-installing Debian X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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 19:21:59 -0000 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.