system recovery

[Olivier Nicole]

> or, can someone recommend how i might use that tarball of my entire
> system to quickly get a new system up and running (all this with the
> assumtion that i have not changed any hardware configurations).  if
> someone has time to answer quickly, i would sure appreciate it.
 
I think that the recovery system that lies on one of the CDs has
tar. You could boot the recovery system and untar the things.

Olivier