debian reinstall - AVERTED ! for now..

[David J Patrick]

MAN that was close !
    As a last ditch I opened a dozen terminals and pored over "man 
module" anything.
then I went looking for weird files.
     In /etc/modutils I found a file "alsa" that listed 
/lib/modules/extra/ - A NON EXISTANT DIRECTORY that is listed in scores 
of recent error messages. I also found "alsa-knoppix-09" that (if I 
removed knx-alsa) should not exist.
    I bumped both files to /tmp/ and ran update-modules.
       Now, I'm not really sure what I'm doing, and alsa is sooo broken, 
but I happy to report that boot-linux was _not_ required to post this !
    ethernet card WORKING (helloo sympatico)
    serial port WORKING (yay palm sync)
    CDroms WORKING
    sound BUSTED (and yet, I'm happY )

OK,
    What system wide backup software would you recomend ? (considering 
Hdup and mondo)
    Do you have any suggestions to massage my modules to molify my music 
making modes ?

Thanks for all your suggestions,
djp


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