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uzibear
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 Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:46 am Post subject: starting over |
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| starting over. for better or worse i turned off my pc in the middle of install. i was doing mirrorselect, then trying to "chorting" or whatever it's called, and ended up with error messages, couldn't acess links, and was altogether screwed, so i turned it off. now i'm trying to start over, and everything's fine till i get to downloading portage off a mirror and it won't let me download it, saying there's no space left. so i think it's already downloaded, and try to extract it, but it says the file doesn't exist. is there a way to erase everything on my hd and start from scratch??? i am killing bill outright and dont' need anything on my hd. or should i just try something else. i like the idea of starting over from scratch. can i just use fdisk to do a full erase of my hd? |
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postgrep
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | starting over. for better or worse i turned off my pc in the middle of install. |
Never turn off your pc half way through. At the very most, you need to stop what you're doing, exit in the console (back into the live cd), umount drives then halt.
| Quote: | | is there a way to erase everything on my hd and start from scratch??? |
rm -rf /
Erases everything from root directory (ReMove -recursive force /)
and then fdisk /dev/hdx (where x is your drive letter)
and delete partitions and write to disk.
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uzibear
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| postgrep wrote: | | Quote: | | starting over. for better or worse i turned off my pc in the middle of install. |
Never turn off your pc half way through. At the very most, you need to stop what you're doing, exit in the console (back into the live cd), umount drives then halt.
| Quote: | | is there a way to erase everything on my hd and start from scratch??? |
rm -rf /
Erases everything from root directory (ReMove -recursive force /)
and then fdisk /dev/hdx (where x is your drive letter)
and delete partitions and write to disk. |
yeah. you know that feeling when you know you're doing something really stupid, but you do it anyway? yeah, well, that was it. i tried your rm-rf / thing but it said i didn't have access or something. so i got a bit creative. i decided to install the one thing i thought might just take over my hd completely - windows of course  was a quick install and now i'm back here starting from scratch which makes me feel good. i'll take it slower this time. and i'll make sure to post if i run into problems. links wasn't even letting me back on -and i thought i was royally screwed. man, reinstalling windows made me sick to my stomach. i've barely used linux but i already have a sickness for an OS that dominates, regulates, and monopolizes. open source forever! |
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AlchEmysT
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postgrep
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:18 am Post subject: |
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Glad to hear it worked out .
If you muck up the install again, you could:
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cd /mnt/gentoo
rm -rf /
fdisk /dev/hda
(create new partitions and write over)
mkreiserfs /dev/hda3
mke2fs /dev/hda1
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Etc and you should be fine.
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