debian reinstall

[David J Patrick]

    Since I have been unable to repair my botched debian 
unstable/testing system
(see recent "apt-get problem" and "SOS; apt-get dist-updrade mashes 
modules" threads) I am facing (yet another) OS reinstall.
    It's kind of annoying, as I have spent a lot of time adding to, and 
tweaking, this last install. I guess it's a symptom of the complexity of 
the OS and/or the simplicity of the sysadmin (me) that when things go 
really wrong I have no choice but /start again/.
    This time I won't use knoppix as my debian starter; I looking at 
Bonzai-2.1. It's a Woody installer, but I hope it will be easy to get it 
back up to Sid. The biggest hurdle is usually the migration of my 
/home/djp/ directory. It's on a separate partition, but I have found, in 
the past, that leftovers from the previous install (/home/djp/.whatever 
files) can screw things up nicely.
    So,
If you have any other suggestions for me regarding
    a) how to fix my modules problem (see previous posts)
       or
    b) the least painfull route to a fresh debian instable reinstall
let me know ! I'm going to start nuking stuff this evening.
    thanks,
djp



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