yeah, you're right. i'm gonna e-mail an expert list about this. the only problem is that i'm so short on time (who would have thought becoming an engineer would require so much time??? ;) ). man, i picked a bad time to install linux. wait, there's never a bad time to get away from the frustrating blue screen of death every time you go to compile code you just wrote. too bad i can't submit my programming homework in unix. damn this university's use of windows! >From: Mike Corbeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still >Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:55:38 -0400 > >BILL wrote: > > > J D wrote: > > > > > okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has > > > worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got >bored and > > > tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to > > > reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! > >I would not suggest doing that, ever. There are better, more appropriate, >ways >of reinstalling linux or any OS. If you do rm -rf /, then this means to >remove >the root directory and I've never done this, but know that rm -rf /* will >remove >everything under the root directory. rm -rf / probably does the same >thing, but >based on other contexts, this would also remove /. In either case, this >would >mean not being able to shutdown or reboot the system using any command, >because >everything would be gone. > >You've got to explain your problem, because as you should obviously see, >there's >no description left of your problem, if you ever described it. > >You want help. Help others to help you. Explain what your problem is, >with more >detail. > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > Okay, I don't truley know if this will help your MAJOR problem,but as a >newbie > > I have had times where I too did somthing somewheres that sent my >partitions > > kablooey.Tried lots of stuff that did n't work and wound up >'reinstalling" but > > installing another distro ;like Caldera,and letting it clean up the >partitions > > when it installed,then I went back and reinstalled mandrake after the >fact > > when I saw that the Caldera was successful. I've done this a few times >and it > > has worked for me > > ,but then I/m a newbie,and only came up with this on instinct,couldn't >tell > > you if it did anything to my machine or not .Don't think it has since I >now > > have a nice Mandrake 70 install thats working to ,my satisfaction > > .Good luck if you decide to try this. >Bill > >Not instinct; just desperation. > >This approach should not be required. You're better off asking in the >expert >mailing list, to learn how to properly handle your problems with Mandrake, >even >at the install level, before bothering with installing another distribution >to >try to recover. > >There are ways to recover or to do successful installs. > >mike > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
