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Loco
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 Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 3:36 pm Post subject: Cleaning the partition |
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Hey, i want to install 1.2 for two reasons. One i forgot my account pw and root pw  also, i want bleeding edge. Basically, i have 1.1a installed and i want to know how i clean out the partition so i know there will be no conflicts while compiling or anything. I tried mkfs.xfs -f with the switches blah blah blah. When it came time to compile the kernal, i had gotten an error and just crashed out of the compile  i dont know why. Can someone help me out? Thank you |
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klieber
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| Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: Cleaning the partition |
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| Loco wrote: | | Hey, i want to install 1.2 for two reasons |
If you currently have 1.1a installed and do an 'emerge -u world', you will then have a system that is more current than gentoo 1.2. The only thing versioning in Gentoo has to do with is the stage 1/2/3 tarballs that are used to get your system up and running. From there, all Gentoo systems are the same. (ok, there's something of a difference if you're using the 1.3b with GCC 3.1)
To fix your root password, search Google for linux forgot root password and you'll get bunches and bunches of ways to solve your problem.
If you're hell-bent on reinstalling, then simply delete and recreate your partition table and be done with it. Otherwise, mke2fs -j /dev/hdaX should solve your problem as well. (that creates an ext3 partition -- substitute other appropriate commands if you're planning on using reiser/XFS/etc.)
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Slurp53
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If you want to completely reinitalize the partition you could try what the install documentation recomends when converting a partition from Reiser to XFS
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx bs=1k.
This should destroy all the data on the partition. See the warning under Code listing 10 in the install documentation
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2002 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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Also, you should be able to boot with the install CD, mount your fs and edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
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loco
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| Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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k, thanks guys you rock  |
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