On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:59:48 +0000, Ori wrote:

> Stanislaw Flatto wrote:

[ Snipped - others have answered already, FWIW, 9.1 "stock" looks better
(eye candy wise) IMO. Bouth upgades and an install went fine, here. ]

> I will be trying Slackware 9.1 soon - after noobishly hosing a perfectly
> good 9.0 install hint:chown * is just as bad as rm -rf *...

I differ in opinion on that. You still have your files...

> No regular users can do <insert appropriate profatity> anymore,

If you would be more specific that should help.
Are you sure you only used "chown" and not "chmod/chgrp" as well?

> I figure
> it's easier to reinstall than figure out which permissions I fucked up.

Maybe, but if you have the time for it - this might be a good learning
experiance. (You'll now whay perms are set the way the are after it.)

> I also want to make some changes to the install, and fix some noob
> mistakes I made on this install (first Linux install).

Understandable.

> Not to mention, I WANT TO TRY 9.1 ;-)

So did i, hence this post is from it (new `pan' looks neet as well).

> I do have one question about reinstalling:
> Will I be able to just copy over the config files from 9.0 (rc.firewall,
> proftpd.conf, and the like) or did the changes introduce incompatibilites?

Likely - yes, i have not found any that did not work jet.

> Oh, and of course - any neat new toys I should look at? :-)

`xine' is included... :-)

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-Menno.