[CentOS] Prepping for system wipe & reload
David A. Woyciesjes
david.woyciesjes at yale.edu
Tue Feb 13 19:32:54 UTC 2007
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
>>
>> Here's the checklist I have so far:
>> 1 - /home partition - separate drive
>> 2 - Files copied to the second drive:
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> rpm for RPM forge
>> /etc/yum - entire folder
>> /etc/yum/repos.d - entire folder
>> /etc/yum.conf
>> /etc/yumex.conf
>> /etc/yumex.profiles.conf
>> 3 - Files installed via Yum(ex) - Hmmm, need to figure this
>> one out. Any
>> pointers?
>
> Sounds like the rpm --setugids didn't work?
May have, but something is still funky with the user profiles.
> Did you have any /usr/local applications installed?
Nope. Just stuff via yumex.
> You can use rpm --verify along with it's options to find config files
> that have been modified from their defaults and copy those over.
That I'm not too terribly worried about.
> The next install should set all the /etc/X11 stuff for you, no need to
> copy it.
Well I have a nVidia Quadro2 Pro AGP, and a Matrox MilleniumII PCI for
my dual head setup. It took a little fiddling to get the resolution
settings I wanted, so this will save time. :)
> You only really need the rpmforge repo def in /etc/yum.repos.d unless
> you have a lot of excludes defined in yum.conf.
Okay. Thanks.
Overall, with all things considered, a wipe is probably the best course
of action. Good thing I had /home on a separate partition(well, drive).
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--- David Woyciesjes
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