I need help with this instruction.

[Steven Vollom]

Jaunty 64
KDE 4.2.2

> Steven, this may help ease in reinstallation of your OS, should you need 
> to do it. I am putting in a new subject so that it will not confuse you 
> with your current boot problems. Other than backing up your home, and I 
> understand you have a separate partition now for it, the following will 
> help you reinstall your various applications like e-sword, wine etc. 
> without needing to download again.
> 
> make a folder called say, Repo in your home.
Is a folder the same as a directory?  Do I open the /home/steven directory to 
create the 'folder' and name it Repo, or do I type 'mkdir Repo from the CLI?
> install dpkg-dev and build-essential
> sudo cp /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /home/Steven/Repo
In this command, my /home/steven is with a small 's' the instruction 'S' - I 
should type in the small 's', is that correct?
> cd /home/Steven/Repo
> sudo dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz
> 
>" burn a cd of all the items in Repo"
Is this a command line instruction?  If it is, is the information I want 
burned to the CD when this command is entered?  Can I do this by removing the 
Live CD and place the media and still be in the Live CD?

> After installation,
Once the data is in the CD, is it present on the screen with an install file?
> sudo apt-cdrom add
Or does this command install the application?  Do I then put the Live CD back 
in the DVDRW?
> 
> 
> Whenever you do any installation, it will probe your cdrom and install 
> from there and use these files instead of downloading again unless there 
> are newer versions available.
> 
> Before you copy files to Repo, it is advisable to
> sudo apt-get autoremove
> sudo apt-get autoclean
Can these two commands be made while using the Live CD?  If I open a shell, 
won't it be checking the Live CD files and not the broken portion of the 
computer's files?

If I open the partition that contains the applications I want to preserve and 
the configurations I want to retain, and if I attempt to open Dolphin in that 
partition, can I open Dolphin, press F4, and have a proper shell to work from?

Perhaps if I had more than one DVDRW to work from I wouldn't be so confused, 
however with only the one writer, I am not sure I can remove the Live CD to 
make a CD and still have the operation capability with the Live CD removed.  
If this is difficult to understand, it was equally difficult to form the words in 
a way that cover my thoughts.   Thanks!

Steven