On 4/17/07, Arne Chr. Jorgensen <achrisjo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Microsoft: When it crashes, you insert the software CD, and somehow you will get going again.
I'm curious as to how you somehow get going again while maintaining the presense of your files. The usual methadology is format and reinstall.
Fedora&RedHat: When it crashes, you insert the software CD, but instead of the situation above, most of your work is lost !
When what crashes? I have never seen a situation where Fedora as a whole crashes. At worth, X server crashes, but that's hardly a reason to reinstall. One only reinstalles if they have been rooted.
True/False ? I suggest that the installation WILL have an OPTION for installing the X-server. It can be on the rescue disk, for instance.
I'm pretty sure you can already reinstall the x-server using the rescue disk. Wouldn't be much of a rescue disk if you couldn't do that.
If anyone has a good tip as how to reinstall X in Fedora6,
yum remove "xorg*" && rm -rf /etc/X11/* && yum install "<DE OF YOUR CHOICE""
I sure would like to know and hopefully rescue my disk. But frankly, I don't understand why such an option isn't there in the first place.
Please state what the problem is exactly.
BTW - it was the Add/Remove software packaged that failed, it should only remove some graphical package, but surprisingly removed the X-server as well. ( did look like it rolled back the depencies.. )
That is no where near being called a crash. That's called removing your x server. You data and system are perfectly safe. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
