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

[Geoffrey]

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?

I've heard so many nightmares regarding Linux upgrades that I always
backup and do a complete clean install.  There's also something to be
said for starting with an empty drive...

> 
> ...
> > 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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