Mark & Juanita wrote:
Gordon Shumway wrote:

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:26:54 -0700, Mark & Juanita
wrote:

Been dealing with a computer crash and had to rebuild system.
What percentage of the problem was Windows?


0%. I run Linux. My wife's computer is an iMAC and we have one PC that our son uses running Windows.

I'm not sure what happened to cause the problem. DNS stopped working on the Linux box and no adjustments to network settings would fix it. Sooo, went with an attempt to repair the system that started a downward spiral breaking even more stuff and ended up having to re-install the OS. That meant that I also got to re-install a fair number of applications and libraries. The good news was this did clean up the OS partition significantly. The sad thing is that I had resisted upgrading to OpenSuse 11.2 because 11.1 is working just fine and I didn't want to have to re-install lots of apps and libraries.

No data was lost during this exercise -- that was the one bright spot.

Having /home on a separate partition is the key to that, or it at least
makes it relatively easy.

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