[ale] I cant get my modem im running linux for the first time

[Jim Philips]

Hah! It wouldn't have been a trauma if I didn't lose anything. Besides,
as I said, I couldn't even log in before the upgrade. So, it isn't like
this was a planned event. 


On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 13:12, Swantje Willms wrote:
> 
> Of course, you did a backup of your valuable data before the upgrade so
> that those files are not really lost, right?
> 
> ...
> > tools, which did more harm than good. And the upgrade somehow just
> > deleted two directories under my home directory: rhdocs and mp3.
> > Apparently, those are reserved names. So, it just destroyed them. In the
> > process, I lost 123 mp3 files and about 40 valuable word processing
> > docs. The most traumatic upgrade I've had in six years of using Linux.
> > 
> ...
> 
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