On 11/02/07 06:31, michael wrote: > I have a system I've hosed and I wish to reinstall the 'etch' o/s. The > current set up is > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 274M 126M 134M 49% / > tmpfs 1007M 0 1007M 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10M 84K 10M 1% /dev > tmpfs 1007M 0 1007M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda5 1.9G 48M 1.7G 3% /boot > /dev/hda10 2.8G 1.8G 1.1G 62% /data > /dev/hda11 11G 1.1G 9.0G 11% /home > /dev/hda9 449M 25K 425M 1% /tmp > /dev/hda7 4.6G 1.8G 2.7G 40% /usr > /dev/hda6 5.5G 927M 4.4G 18% /var > /dev/hdc 551M 551M 0 100% /media/cdrom0 > > so does this sound sensible: > > 1) backup /home and /data to another machine > 2) boot from netinst CD > 3) remove partitions hda2 hda5 hda7 hda6
The install process will initialize these if you want. > 4) recreate said partitions No need to recreate them. Just let the installer reformat them. > 5) complete install > 6) run apt-get update/install > > and then reinstall other progs (evo) and drivers (nVidia) as required? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
