[cobalt-users] New Administrator - Please H~E~L~P

["kymsabq" <kymsabq@xxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy everybody,

I just leased a RaQ4i a few of weeks ago and my Linux experience comes from
reading the back of cereal boxes.  My Cobalt service provider is doing a
system restore for me today so I have a clean slate to deal with.  I
obviously did not do a system backup prior to going hog-wild upgrading
various software above the versions that are on their OS image cd-rom.

What strategy should I employ in administering this machine?  What is good
policy for managing to keep my tail out of the wringer and avoiding trouble?
I'm sure some of you folks have a wall of these things and can give me some
advice as to how to keep the machine up to date software wise without
messing it up.  Mentioning the obvious is fine.  I'm going to make a list of
things that I ought to do and watch from what I can glean from this list and
see if I can't do a good job of administering this RaQ. I might even take
the time to do a web site listing the complete file structure on the RaQ so
that perhaps others can get help from it.

Thanks for any input, help, advice.  My next system restore is going to set
me back a c-note.  I'd sure like to not have that happen and the system
restore I'm having them do today is free, as it's my first one.  The machine
still works but it's out of hand as I have no records of what I'd done, when
I did it, and where I got the patches, etc.  I thought it well to just start
over and do it right.

Thanks again for any help or guidance in this matter.

Cheers!



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