Re: solution: rescuing /home on a failed attempt to ugprade to sarge (and new question)
matthew bradley wrote:
What I ended up doing was taking a Gentoo LiveCD I had laying around,
booting off of that, setting hda3 to a mount point under the gentoo
system, configuring sshd (with some help from others) to allow root
login, and then tarring up home, ftping it to a windows box with
generous hard drive sapce, and also grabbing /etc/passwd, group,
shadow and my smb configuration stuff.
USB disks are good. I'm taking about spinning disks, not SSD.
I get 20-25 Mbytes/sec on a recent mobo. I could just about live with ~
on one:-)
Now I'm reinstalling Debian Sarge from the netinstall cd on this
PowerEdge, and its asking me if I want to use grub. I presume if I say
no, it'll asking me if I want to use LILO... which should I use? This
is not going to be a dual-boot machine, by the way.
grub.
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Cheers
John
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