5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
6:33 p.m.
Lee Revell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 07:16 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
i'll second that ... a re-install can really learn you some fast lessons
about linux, too. of course, re-installing is something i avoid like the
plague now, but back when i was beginning .... man, i re-installed every
other day. one of the things i learnt to do from this, which makes
re-installing pretty painless if you've got a bunch of data and
configurations, is to have your /home folder on a seperate partition.
shayne
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 21:54 -0500, pjfjacks
wrote:
Hey,
I only said a reinstall might be a good idea as Phil had installed
Ubuntu (which worked perfectly AFAICT, except the MIDI thing which I
think was a config error), then added a Demudi source to his
sources.list which I don't think is supposed to work, and which really
hosed things (lost the network).
So he asked me if a Ubuntu reinstall is the best way to go from here and
I said probably. Obviously don't reinstall if you have data you care
about!
Maybe this was poor advice. However when I was a new Linux user and
really hosed things I often found a reinstall was teh quickest and
easiest way to get back to square one.
Just wish I'd taken better notes along the
way...it pains me greatly.
Everything but MIDI was working so well. Totally shameful as the XP system
hums right along ...this isn't right at all..
Phil J.
Eh, I've wiped out my systems a bunch of times, and it's always a lot
faster to get your settings back the second time.
phil, you are getting some very poor advice here, i am not sure why.
system reinstalls are *NOT* the way to solve problems with linux.