[PLUG] Linux Clinic on Sunday, April *20* 1pm at Free Geek

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Apr 19 13:43:21 UTC 2008


On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, donkyhotay wrote:

> I chose to keep my original menu.lst and xorg.conf files instead of
> letting the updater handle them automatically. This (partially) broke my
> system and I tried repairing them manually but had to end up letting the
> automated system recreate the defaults (like it wanted too in the first
> place).

   Each Slackware distribution puts all changed config files in the proper
directory with a .new extension. This allows us to go through them, one at a
time, and apply any modifications we made to the old ones. Tedious and time
consuming, but it works.

Rich

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