Re: Dumb, dumb, dumb (but please help!)
"David Small" <david_b_small@hotmail.com> writes:
> But I'm not going to do that for a while (I have a working system)
> In the meantime, I'll read up on:
> 1) how to create custom boot floppies
It's really a lilo issue. You can just have the kernel and a lilo MBR
on the floppy boot sector. Its very simple and doesn't require
boot-floppies stuff at all. Consult lilo documentation for details.
> 2) how to "downgrade" a system (I have some testing and unstable libs
> on there, and I want to put everything back to potato/stable). We'll
> see if just apt-get -f dist-upgrade (with the appropriate sources)
> works.
No, I don't think so. You probably have to do apt-get --reinstall
<pkgs>.
I wish we had better downgrade support -- I hear someone is workign on
it.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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