From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 7:32:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FF937B698 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:32:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 1419Dc-000BvU-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:32:24 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA61135 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:32:24 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:32:23 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: any ideas on clean reinstalling and restoring settings? Message-ID: <20001129153223.A61069@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have my system just right, but I have to do a full reinstall to fix a library problem that won't go away. I want this to be as clean as possible, but I hate the idea of losing all my little configurations. Is there a strategy to install and restore as many of these as possible? Note: I will probably reformat just for good measure. Can I just restore /home and merge /etc afterwards to get most of the configuration back? thanks, Jonathon -- "The spice must flow...." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message