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Re: How to reinstall without changing anything?



On Sunday 19 June 2005 22:59, Mike Oliver wrote:
> Still, if there were a simple way to reinstall, keeping all the same
> packages and not losing any customizations, I might do it.  But I don't
> recall any way to avoid answering a million questions at install time.
> Really, I shouldn't have to answer *any* -- I want all the same packages,
> same /etc/fstab, same rcconf configuration, same cups configuration, etc
> etc etc.

Can debootstrap be used to do all the reinstalling in a chroot environment in 
order to protect the original system?



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