Re: downgrade from Woody to Potato - Yes, I too wish you would explain....
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:48:58AM -0500 wrote
DTi4565459@aol.com:
> YES, writing up a quickie install method would be greatly appreciated.
> HOW about a quickie on installing from source, like CDROM #4 of the
> 6 CD Debian package. It is supposed to contain all the source for binary
> disc #1. Thanks, dave
I don't know about reinstalling from sources, I have not done that.
Before reformatting the harddisk I did a dpkg --get-selections and backed
up /etc. This is what does the trick, since all configuration files are kept
in /etc. I decided to clean up the system a little, so I did not push
the seleciton list back in to dpkg (dpkg --set-selections), but if you
want the system to be identical to the one you had before, running
dpkg --set-selections and initialing the install process (e.g. by running
dselect) should give you the same system as before. Replace the system's
/etc directory with your backup and you should be all set.
Cheers -- Stephan
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