re-installing Debian

[jim grimsby]

Hi,  before you do that reinstall then I hardily advice you to backup
your home directory.  
Hth 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Glenn at home
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 4:52 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: re-installing Debian


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" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen
review 
system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
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
>
>
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