lucky13
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Posted: Mar. 23 2007,07:30 |
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| Quote (Ebo @ Mar. 22 2007,23:47) | | It looks like I have the backup process working as I can see it in the shutdown and startup scripts about backing up and restoring from /dev/hda1.... I must be doing something wrong then as I've reinstalled many times, including without adding any new boot lines, and persistence of changes such as netcardconfig/iwconfig/ndiswrapper still seem an urban myth to my compy. I'll try the ICONS=1 change to see if it will work. I'm starting to think this old pc is close to the end of its days. |
The boot options for persistent /home and /opt are for frugal installs, not hard drive installation. The hard drive install sets /home and /opt in your / partition. You can manually change that; many people, though, do just fine with one partition. It won't matter at all if you're thinking of upgradability -- you'll lose any new programs you might add to /usr/... via apt-get or whatever in a hard drive install. With the hard drive install, you don't set up backup (that's for frugal).
Explain step by step how you're installing and setting things up. Are you using a hard drive install or frugal? Backups? Are you running as user dsl? Are your partitions, particularly whichever one has your /home directory (however the heck you've actually set it up), mounted read-write or read-only? With all your installing and re-installing, have you cleared out your MBR so you don't have old GRUB/LILO conflicting with your current one?
The good news is the problem isn't your "old" computer. It's only doing what you're telling it to do.
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