Re: Wishing I could cancel that last e-mail.

[jason whizzird net]

yeah...i'd probably back up home and etc and reinstall that too. 
On 19-Jun-99 hitchhiker scribbled:
> jason@whizzird.net wrote:
>> 
>> it's not windows, so you shouldn't have to reinstall. what are you trying to
>> install? and what distribution do you have? if you find tarballs aggravating
>> get redhat 6.0 (chances are you have redhat already--it's the most popular
>> in
>> the us i hear) and just use rpms. that's how i install everything. the only
>> things i tarball are things i can't get in rpm (like xfmail) or things i
>> write
>> myself (not worth putting in an rpm). and you can even get the rpm utility
>> for
>> other distributions. i've been using linux since last year and have seen a
>> huge
>> jump in the percentage of things put in rpms.
> 
> yes,I have red hat.  I have a 6.0 disk laying around somewhere.
> one of the reasons I want to reinstall is that lots of things have
> turned up "missing".  gone.  vanished.  and I didn't delete them.
> like the red hat control panel, for example.
> 
> as for using RPMs, I do it only when I can't find the source.  compiling
> a source package I know exactly where it goes and what is going on with
> it. 
> 
> I haven't had these problems up until last week.  everything up until
> then installed fine...
> I think I did something screwy with the settings in my linuxconf...
> somehow going through there I got my ppp connection to allow users to
> dial out (good) but now I get error messages about not finding 40 kinds
> of ethernet modules and a screen that wants to know if I want to start
> up as a graphical workstation or a text workstation. (bad).
> this is pissing me off.  and I hoped a new kernel would fix most of it,
> but nothing above a 2.2.4 will boot for me.
> 
> so there you have it.
> my logic here then:
> there is a HUGE mess on my system right now.  I CAN fix it.  It will
> take FOREVER.  Backing up my data and re-installing will erase the old,
> put in newer, and let me start fresh from a (possibly) more up-to-date
> system.
> 
> is there any flaw in this reasoning?
> 
> 
> 
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E-Mail: jason@whizzird.net
Date: 19-Jun-99
Time: 16:03:23
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