On Tue, 20 May 2003 at 3:02pm, Kevin Passey wrote

> I have lost a disk on my RH7.2 system and need to re-install the OS.
> 
> I have a full Amanda backup - are there any step by step guides to re-build
> a system from scratch - given that the tapes are good.

The canonical way would be to boot in rescue mode using the RH install 
disk or some other mini-distro, and then use dd and tar/restore to put 
your stuff back on disk.

> Or is it just a case of re-install RH re-build Amanda and run from there.

That's what I'd do.

> If the latter is the case would it cause a problem if I took this
> opportunity to upgrade to 2.44.

Nope.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University