Re: [SLUG] Have I destroyed my system?

[luke.kendall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 12 Feb, Grant Parnell wrote:
>  You might have some short term luck with upgrading to RH7.2 but basically  
>  you've screwed it up. It's possibly recoverable but the effort to do so is  
>  going to be more than starting afresh. 

Yep.  I spent 3 hours trying to repair it, and failing, yet it took only
30 mins to install RH 7.2 - plus about 4 hours last night reinstating
95% of the local mods.

Some surprising omissions from the RH install: no Window Maker; no rxvt.
 
>  I'd start backing up the data you need to somewhere.  If you have /home on 
>  it's own partition, put all your stuff in there and do a fresh install 
>  with manual partitioning. You can then select which partitions to format  
>  and simply skip the /home partition. 

Yep, that's what I did.  I'm *so* glad /usr/local was on a separate
partition, too.  I'd recommend that to everyone.

>  I'd suggest writing down what's in /etc/fstab (or output of "mount") , 
>  backing up all of /etc and stuff you want in /home. 

I took a copy of all /etc (since I hadn't cvs committed the current
status before the destruction, since I'm still tweaking my cvs-etc
scripts).

Basically, though, it was pretty painless.

Tonight: tweak terminfo/termcap, and recompile a more modern kernel,
chucking in CD-RW support.  I think I'll be fully back in action, then.

Regards,

luke