Steve, OK, so now we know we have a rather messy situation. Tell me what are the problems that you have right now and we'll try to figure out a possible solution. And, BTW, tape backups are really nice in situations like this. I know, in the worst case, you just have to backup all your data, mail, and passwords database, and do a complete reinstall from scratch (ie: doing 'mke2fs' as well), which I think you might have to do. Regards, Kenneth Tan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Kenneth Tan E-mail: cjtan@acm.org Telephone: 1-403-220-8038 cjtan@ieee.org 1-403-606-4257 URL: <A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc"><A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A">http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A</A>> Facsimile: 1-403-284-1980 "An engineer made programmer is one who attempts to solve a problem, A programmer made engineer is one who knows how to solve a problem." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
This is really interesting. What did you have to reinstall?
Kenneth Tan
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Kenneth,
Well that is an interesting way to phrase the question. I don't know what I actually NEEDED to reinstall, I just forced a complete system update from YAST. Not the most pleasant option, but my system was really hosed. It would not recognize any of the caux devices nor the msdos type file system, It kept saying that the root partition was read only, and it would not run kdm. Rather than trying to untangle the mess I just did a reinstall. Fortunately It did not turn too many things back to a state from which I had updated. I'm tough, I don't need no stinkin' tape back ups. . . NOT! I did a real dumb thing and tried to continue t0 work while I was running the KDE 1.0 install. I crashed Yast. Not sure how, but it did some damage :-(
Steve --
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