<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Mike,</div><div dir="ltr">if you don't mind a GUI there is always <a href="http://yunohost.org/">http://yunohost.org/</a> for the hosting / email <br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I used it for my emails admin for a while on a raspberry PI at home and on a digital Ocean droplet</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>good news/ Bad news. <br></div><div>Depending on how you deleted the root. there was is a bug/feature if I recall that could damage the UEFI <br></div><div>"Thanks Systemd" ™
</div><div>hopefully that isn't the case but then long as you don't format the /home partition you can reinstall to your hearts content on most sane distros...I say most</div><div><br></div><div>if you need a backup i recommend back blaze and restic i backup 500GB+ for $2 a month then you can reinstall all you want</div><div>you could even run this backup from a live CD just to be sure<br></div><div><br></div><br><div dir="ltr">regards<br>Dick Thomas<br><a href="https://linuxrocks.online/@speaksthegeek" target="_blank">https://linuxrocks.online/@speaksthegeek<br></a></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/DickWThomas" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DickWThomas</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://keybase.io/dickthomas" target="_blank">https://keybase.io/dickthomas</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Forums and Mailing List: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must becivilised."<br>"Your father's Thinkpad. This is the weapon of a sysadmin. Not as hard to repair as a MacBook. An elegant weapon for a more civilised age."</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 15:32, John Robert Hudson via Bradford <<a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Mike<br>
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Normally you can go into the bios settings to unset UEFI and then install; a <br>
good distro will leave your /home untouched but for safety System Rescue will <br>
enable you to make a copy of your /home partition before you do this.<br>
<br>
John<br>
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On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:10:17 GMT Devo Too via Bradford wrote:<br>
> Hi Folks,<br>
> <br>
> I'm snowed under and not finding time to get a couple of things out of<br>
> the way. There is a small amount of money available to pay for the work,<br>
> I'm hoping sufficient to cover it.<br>
> <br>
> The first is for our two voluntary projects, which haven't got any money<br>
> in yet but the three of us involved have put a bit in so we can do<br>
> things like this to get started.<br>
> <br>
> We need Exim configuring, along with Spamassassin and Dovecot (plus<br>
> Amavis-new?) on a Bytemark VM.<br>
> <br>
> The second is for me and I'll have to cough up personally. I've wiped<br>
> out the root partition on the new laptop. On boot it asks me to reboot<br>
> and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot<br>
> device and press a key. Nothing happens with the latter) and the only<br>
> boot optgion available is UEFI network stack. The USB and 'Doze Boot<br>
> options have been deleted.<br>
> <br>
> If you can do either, or at least point me in the right direction for<br>
> the laptop problem (e.g. need somebody with a 'Doze10 USB 'cos no CD<br>
> slot and there's no other way to do it), please respond here or on 07564<br>
> 689577.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks all,<br>
> <br>
> Mike<br>
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