ittayd
May 30th, 2009, 10:09 PM
Hi,
My laptop started with Ubuntu 7.04 and has gone several distribution upgrades to 9.04. In order to fix incompatibilities, I have also changed many /etc files.
I have some major issues that prevent me from working (computer freeze, can't suspend to ram), so as a last resort I want to try to reset 9.04 to a "vanilla" state, without all the hacks I've done through the years. I obviously don't remember them all.
What is the best approach here? Re-install (how do I maintain the same package set as I have now, don't want to need to reinstall all of them)? dpkg reconfigure -a?
Thank you,
Ittay
My laptop started with Ubuntu 7.04 and has gone several distribution upgrades to 9.04. In order to fix incompatibilities, I have also changed many /etc files.
I have some major issues that prevent me from working (computer freeze, can't suspend to ram), so as a last resort I want to try to reset 9.04 to a "vanilla" state, without all the hacks I've done through the years. I obviously don't remember them all.
What is the best approach here? Re-install (how do I maintain the same package set as I have now, don't want to need to reinstall all of them)? dpkg reconfigure -a?
Thank you,
Ittay