Re: / & /boot lost, re-install?
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:06:39PM -0800, David Robinson wrote:
> Ok, I was keeping / , /boot, and swap on a small HD and running rest of
> file system on larger drive w/ Promise controller(My old MB wouldn't
> support such a large drive). Just lost the small HD (it was old). But
> kind of planned ahead and left a 2gig open space at the front of the second
> drive. Can I just re-install Woody, formatting the 2gig section with the
> needed directories and mounting the old file system. Or will I lose all my
That should work. The biggest problem is going to be /etc.
What I would also do is reinstall all installed packages (apt-get
install --reinstall), to make sure everything is there.
Frank
> old files? Thanks a lot,
>
> Dave
>
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