[SLL] /etc overwritten; is there any hope?

Ariz Jacinto ajacinto at u.washington.edu
Fri Jun 29 21:16:12 PDT 2007


i agree with this one. and besides, the machine is not yet
on live production use. but if you find the whole reinstallation
process to be tedious, perhaps you might want to consider
using a kickstart installation next time  :)

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-howuse.html



On 6/29/07, Francois Caen <frcaen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/29/07, William Kreuter <billyk at drizzle.com> wrote:
> > Looks like I really clobbered an RHEL-4 machine pretty
> > badly.  I was just finishing up its setup.
>
> So you had what? One hour of setup invested into it?
> My advice would be to cut your losses and re-install from scratch.
> Better waste an hour today than have something blow up in 6 months.
> --
> Francois Caen
>
>


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