Re: debai app
Grazie Enrico!
To the "funny guys"!
I am determined to learn Debian, and one day I'll go
off, into the mountains, dig me some ore, and build me
a Debian from scratch! (As they, no doubt, could!
HA!).
Seriously--some years ago I got fed up with MS Windows
and since I heard about the free Linux, I went and
bought me the first one on the shelf--a Debian. On the
box it promissed that it would be the last OS I would
ever buy, since I could update any time there was a
new version, etc., etc.. Nowhere it said I had to
become a techie. I stuck to Debian (with minor
side-trips to Mandrake and such), learned a bit over
the years--just a bit, since I don't get to use the
computer all that often--, but still have not become a
techie, which definitely is not a plus, as Debian is
being built by the techies for the techies.
And I still think that an online diagnostic tool would
be a great thing to have, even for the techies who,
without a doubt, could build Debian from scratch. What
with configuring sound, updating the new versions of
kernel, and such. And such a tool could be, at the
same time, while diagnosticking, made such a way that
it would explain all the issues involved without
having to be an AI.
What profit is there in making the life of non-techies
not easier? Consider how handicapped we are already!
What the guys before Enrico were refering to was
perhaps my dream project (a link from "Creating Peace"
at www.modelearth.org/peace.html), actually a project
made for Debian experts who could help with
"distributed computing"--www.modelearth.org--please
read, and give an intelligent feedback/critique
(difficult?, how difficult to hook up all the
computers?, is it being done already somewhere?,
etc.).
--- Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:16:57PM -0800, Mr. Jan
> Hearthstone wrote:
>
> > While there are none such yet, what files and how
> (what commands?
> > where to write them?) should I back up
> (automatically, over-write) on
> > startup and shutdown, so that all I would have to
> do would be to
> > re-install and just simply over-write the needed
> files, if need be?
> > In which list should I really ask about this?
> > Thanks!
> > Thank you, respectfully - Mr. Jan Hearthstone.
>
> Please forget the funny guys that can't find where
> the real question is
> in your mail.
>
> You can backup your package selection with:
> dpkg --get-selections > file.txt
> and then reselect the packages you had in the
> previous install with:
> dpkg --set-selection < file.txt
>
> All the configurations are in /etc: you can make a
> backup with:
> tar zcvf etc.tar.gz /etc
> and restore it with:
> tar -C / -xvf etc.tar.gz
>
> And all the user's data are in /home, which you can
> backup and restore
> like /etc.
>
> E-mail inboxes, MySQL databases and other shared
> data is in /var.
> Depending on how you use your system you may want to
> make a backup of
> that as well.
>
>
> If you're just learning, you probably only need to
> backup your home;
> after some reinstalling you'll figure out what else
> you want to preserve
> to make your reinstallations easier.
>
> You'll also find out that things are not that easy
> to break if you don't
> stop learning :)
>
>
> Ciao,
>
> Enrico
>
> --
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> <enrico@enricozini.org>
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