Results of my Dapper Install

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 7/26/06, Me - Atlantic <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
>
> All in all, the install went very well.  If I have a choice between
> dist-upgrade and fresh install, I'll take the long way.  A full backup
> as an image, and a full tarball would restore any files/confs  I'd
> _have_ to have back after the fact.
> (If I had a spare spare machine, I'd take a look at Edgy, but lack of
> available hardware prevents it atm)...

I work around this problem by keeping an installation copy of every
non-respository package I install and also backing up /etc each night.
 When I make a config change in /etc, I back up the original file to
filename.`date +%Y%m%d%`.  In order to find configuration that has
changed, I just look for the *.2006* files.  If one's there, I've made
a change.  If it's not there, the file is default.  This doesn't
necessarily hold for /etc/network/interfaces, /etc/passwd, /etc/group,
/etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow as they're changed outside of direct
manipulation.

Anyway, I can do a clean installation every time and from live CD boot
to all patches applied, all additional software installed, and any
additional configuration completed takes about 40 minutes.

-- 
Chris

"I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford.  I
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