"Biggish goof" --apology

[Nicholas Bodley]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:45:28 -0400, <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:

> I don't think there was anything wrong with your post. It seemed to me  
> that you already had the solution in hand: backup /home and reinstall  
> everything else.

Thanks much! I thought it was too chatty. It's likely to be some fun doing  
the backup (I don't yet have a known-workable USD<-->IDE cable; I re-plug  
the cables to my CD_RW drive). Forgetting to mount the temporary drive  
doesn't help. :)

Regards,

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