Re: Re: [Nolug] CD-ROM problem

Thanks, Scott, Dave, Ron and -ray, for your help. After messing with the diskette and the old hard disc, the CD reader was somehow reactivated and I was able to reinstall RH 8.0 without reformatting anything but /boot and /swap. I didn't see how to reformat anything more since everything seems to be in one 40G partition (though that isn't how I remember installing it). Everything seems to be there and working at this point. I did download Libranet 2.0 to my Windows machine and will burn a CD and try it one of these days.
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From: -ray <ray@ops.selu.edu>
Date: 2003/02/26 Wed PM 03:32:51 EST
To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Subject: Re: [Nolug] CD-ROM problem

Fix the problem by re-installing? What are you guys, Windows users?? :)
Hahaha... Fix the problem you're having now the hard way. I bet you'll
learn a lot about how linux works, and you'll know how to fix it next
time. Better yet, you'll know what NOT to do next time.

-ray

On 26 Feb 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:25, Scott Harney wrote:
> > <jdtiede@bellsouth.net> writes:
> [snip]
> > You may be better off re-installing. Perhaps RedHat's installer will
> > preserve /home for you.
>
> And this time, use a good distro like Debian. Your teeth will be
> whiter, and women will be more attracted to you. (Libranet, which is
> Debian-derived, has a better installer, and favors KDE, but it's
> trivial to install Gnome.)
>
> Of course, you could always install Knoppix. It's a darned shame
> that I don't have anything to install Knoppix on. I'd really like
> to try it.
>
>

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IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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