solution: rescuing /home on a failed attempt to ugprade to sarge (and new question)

[matthew bradley <matt@votenader.org>]

Hi all,

Thanks for the advice (re: 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/09/msg00988.html )

What I ended up doing was taking a Gentoo LiveCD I had laying around, 
booting off of that, setting hda3 to a mount point under the gentoo 
system, configuring sshd (with some help from others) to allow root 
login, and then tarring up home, ftping it to a windows box with 
generous hard drive sapce, and also grabbing /etc/passwd, group, shadow 
and my smb configuration stuff.

Now I'm reinstalling Debian Sarge from the netinstall cd on this 
PowerEdge, and its asking me if I want to use grub. I presume if I say 
no, it'll asking me if I want to use LILO... which should I use? This is 
not going to be a dual-boot machine, by the way.

I'm gonna repartition things properly too -- stick home on another 
partition, etc.

Then I'm going to get to try to recover my my old home and user information.

Thanks

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