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- From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
- Subject: Re: Uninstalling Stacker.. grrrr...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.144120.8996@cs.mcgill.ca>
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- Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- References: <Bu8AGz.BGs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Sep8.231653.6801@rei.com> <RUSSELL.92Sep14164133@csd475a.erim.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:41:20 GMT
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- In article <RUSSELL.92Sep14164133@csd475a.erim.org> russell@csd475a.erim.org (John Russell) writes:
- >> Installing Stacker takes a long time. De-installing it shouldn't take
- >> any less time.
- >
- >It sounds like de-installing requires a backup, removal of stacker volume and
- >restoration of the backup.
- >I don't own stacker but from what I've heard it can be installed with data
- >already on the disk. Or it can be installed from scratch on a new drive.
- >Everyone has said it is much, much faster to install it from scratch.
-
- My method of deinstalling Stacker:
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- Copy everything off the disk onto another.
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- Reformat the disk.
-
- Works fine, and is rather quick.
-
- I've found the stacker utilities, while reliable, rather difficult
- to work with, so I just didn't bother.
-
- Toodlepip!
- Marc 'em.
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