Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
I've already volunteered, off-list. If I didn't already have such a
DVD in hand, I could produce another in 25 to 30 minutes. Burned,
byte-checked, and labeled. Could even make a batch of 3 in about the
same time, but that seems excessive.
I tried a FC8 Live CD, but it wanted to remove all Linux partitions and
install clean. I can't be doing that as there's data on the drive I don't
want to lose. I'm going to try a FC7 Rescue CD, but I'm not keeping my hopes
up with that. If it fails, I'll be contacting Carl about getting a FC7 and
FC8 DVD (FC7 to fix what I have, and FC8 to update after that).
That is not mandatory. You have the option of a custom partition
scheme, in which you can choose which partitions to keep and which to
reformat. Actually I did that myself about 3 hours ago to my spare
computer in the back room.
At the top of the partitioning page, there is a slot that says
something like "remove all Linux partitions" but it can be scrolled to
a few other choices, one of which is custom partition.
I was thinking of using this option(custom partition) with a FC7 Live
CD. First I'll have to boot with a rescue CD to see which partitions are
which, and write them down.
The Rescue CD is mostly for repairing existing systems, which might be
what you want, but it's hard to tell from this far away.
I found that using the rescue CD, there's a LOT of stuff missing from
the system on the HDD. This includes many standard Linux commands. I'm
not sure which packages are missing, but with a FC7 CD, I can copy the
important missing stuff from the CD (like the many things in /usr/bin)
to the HDD and it should work and I should be able to log in. (One of
the things that is missing is a shell - any shell, they're all gone.)
It's interesting to see how much is gone, but yet the system still boots
into single user mode and the data that is left on the HDD can still be
accessed via a live or rescue CD.
PGA
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