I would set up some kind of backup strategy. I know its almost too late in the game to bring that up, but you may still be able to pull it off. That said, what I would suggest to make a rebuild easier, would be to capture the following: Capture your package list: dpkg --get-selections > <hostname>-pkglist Grab any non-standard directories you have on the machine, e.g. /usr/local, /opt, /home, etc, as well as a few debian-specific directories (like /var/backups, /var/cache/debconf, /var/lib, /boot and /lib/modules). From this I exclude /var/cache/apt/archives, Cache and cache directories (mozilla and netscape cache directories respectively). Write these to a CD, and you should be able to rebuild on another drive without problems: 1. Do the base system install. After reboot, when prompted to start run deselect, exit out. 2. Log in, mount the CD you made, then do dpkg --set-selections < /cdrom/<hostname>-pkglist apt-get dselect-upgrade 3. Go through the configuration, then go ahead and restore from CD (although you probably want to skip the /var directories if you rebuilt from scratch). I actually have a backup script that does a pretty good job of backing up and is pretty configurable. On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:22:40AM -0800, D. wrote: > Hi All, > I know that this has been discussed before so I > apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard > drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty > bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can > copy it to another, then do the bunzip2? I'm looking > for a easy solution, I can re-install, that's not a > problem, I just hate to loose some programs that I > have installed. > Thanks in advance. > Don > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- --Brad ============================================================================ Bradley M. Alexander | Debian Developer, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer | storm [at] debian.org ============================================================================ Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 ============================================================================ If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
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