Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: >> Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
>>> So I tried the "boot" and "root" floppies, but the >>> thing insists that I repartition! (And lose >>> everything!) >> Try booting with a LiveCD (such as Knoppix). You can >> then chroot to your hard drive and fix the problem. > I have an old Toshiba Satelite that doesn't boot off > a CD-ROM. Scrap the LiveCD idea, then. > I did, though, found some one-floppy Linux didts, > but once (and if) I got the system on the RAM, I have > no idea how to get into my hd, and, at least, salvage > some files. Hopefully it includes the chroot command. Once you boot, mount whatever disk partition is your root partition as /mnt/[whatever] (make sure it's mounted read/write), then 'chroot /mnt/[whatever]'. For all practical purposes you are now on your local system. You can mount the rest of your partitions, and use lilo, apt-get, and whatever else you need to do the repairs. Adam Good and bad news. The rescue floppy(-ies - BG-Rescue Linux 0.4.0 - http://omnibus.ruf.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ -) chroot on it. Please, checkout their "BusyBox", BusyBox 1.00 (with Ed Clark's unzip Patch) [, adjtimex, ar, ash, basename, busybox, cal, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cpio, cut, date, dd, deallocvt, devfsd, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgrep, find, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, getopt, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, hwclock, id, ifconfig, init, insmod, install, kill, killall, klogd, length, ln, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, logname, losetup, ls, lsmod, makedevs, md5sum, mesg, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nslookup, od, openvt, pidof, ping, pipe_progress, pivot_root, poweroff, printf, ps, pwd, rdate, readlink, realpath, reboot, renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, sed, setkeycodes, sh, sha1sum, sleep, sort, stty, swapoff, swapon, sync, sysctl, syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, test, tftp, time, top, touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, udhcpc, umount, uname, uncompress, uniq, unix2dos, unzip, uptime, usleep, vconfig, vi, watch, wc, wget, which, xargs, yes, zcat maybe there is something I could do? The BG-Rescue asks me to "chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND...]" and I don't know what it demands, I never came across "/mnt", or "chroot" before. I did "ls -a", and it listed all kind of directories, it seemed to me those were the original ones. I "cd"-ed into /root, did "ls -a" again, but all it listed was "." and "..". ?????? Is there any "cookbook" approach that I would comprehend? What is it that I am supposed to "/mnt/" to? "read/write" ????? I am sorry. Hearthstone. Ijust checked with "df", and it is obvious that the "ls -a" i did previously pertained to the RAM. The thing obviously "lives" there. H.S. ===== Please take part in my survey on "Peace": http://www.modelearth.org/survey.html If we were sincere about wanting Peace, then we would spend more on Peace than what we spend on the military. Meditation for Peace: http://prayer4peace.net/ Designing ecologically and socially sustainable Earth: http://modelearth.tripod.com/modelearth.html Best Hawai'ian Tunes: http://hotspotshawaii.com/irhpages/irhlive.html Legalize the Right to Sleep: http://gief.pair.com/hearth/sleepright.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
