[Bradford] A couple of small jobs

[Dick Thomas]

Hi Mike,
if you don't mind a GUI there is always http://yunohost.org/ for the
hosting / email
I used it for my emails admin for a while on a raspberry PI at home and on
a digital Ocean droplet

good news/ Bad news.
Depending on how you deleted the root. there was is a bug/feature if I
recall that could damage the UEFI
"Thanks Systemd" ™
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

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
you could even run this backup from a live CD just to be sure


regards
Dick Thomas
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 15:32, John Robert Hudson via Bradford <
bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Mike
>
> Normally you can go into the bios settings to unset UEFI and then install;
> a
> good distro will leave your /home untouched but for safety System Rescue
> will
> enable you to make a copy of your /home partition before you do this.
>
> John
>
> On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:10:17 GMT Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm snowed under and not finding time to get a couple of things out of
> > the way. There is a small amount of money available to pay for the work,
> > I'm hoping sufficient to cover it.
> >
> > The first is for our two voluntary projects, which haven't got any money
> > in yet but the three of us involved have put a bit in so we can do
> > things like this to get started.
> >
> > We need Exim configuring, along with Spamassassin and Dovecot (plus
> > Amavis-new?) on a Bytemark VM.
> >
> > The second is for me and I'll have to cough up personally. I've wiped
> > out the root partition on the new laptop. On boot it asks me to reboot
> > and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot
> > device and press a key. Nothing happens with the latter) and the only
> > boot optgion available is UEFI network stack. The USB and 'Doze Boot
> > options have been deleted.
> >
> > If you can do either, or at least point me in the right direction for
> > the laptop problem (e.g. need somebody with a 'Doze10 USB 'cos no CD
> > slot and there's no other way to do it), please respond here or on 07564
> > 689577.
> >
> > Thanks all,
> >
> > Mike
> >
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