Re: [aclug-L] what to save

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Set up /home on a separate partition during your re-build.  Make a
/home/software directory and copy the ziped tar files you downloaded,
from say CPAN, into it so you can get the "customization" of your
system back without remembering all of the special "packages".
/etc/XF86Config is another file to save a copy of in /home/software.

On Wed, 5 May 1999, spiff wrote:

> Tomorrow evening I plan to rebuild an existing linux machine.  My question
> is can anyone think of things I should save other then /home/users* that I
> might need with a fresh install of Debian?  I have also saved a few things
> out of /etc and my /var/log files.  But I am curious if there is anything
> that I am forgetting that anyone can think of.  Hoping this will pretty much
> be as painless as possible and afford the least amount of downtime, while
> getting rid of several mistakes I have made in setting this box up
> originally.
> 
> tia,
> Seth
> 
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