On 2 Nov 2007, at 12:16, Ron Johnson wrote:
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.
sorry to be thick but when I run the netinst CD it knows about the
current partitions so if I just hit 'finish partitioning and write
changes to disk' is that sufficient/right? surely it will either wipe
all data off disk (not what I want) or change nothing (perhaps not
what I want depending if the remainder of the installation will
effectively wipe current OS and additional packages and replace with
ONLY the raw netInst CD o/s)
M
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