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On Tuesday 23 May 2006 09:17, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
win 2000 5 GB 1.2 GB swap 118 GB Main Linux, everything all in the one large partition.
If I were you, since you can't backup your data, I'd pull hda out of the system and temporarily replace it with a cheaply purchased or borrowed 'spare.' All you need is a known working drive that is sitting around because it's now too small, say 8GB or 10GB or something along those lines.
I have been fighting this since 4:30 AM. I used backup edge to backup my UnixWare and win 2000 HD. I then blow it away and have since been trying to install 10.1 on it. No Luck. It seems that 10.1 has to have more memory than 128 MB. I just got back on the internet to see if there were any work arounds for the lack of memory. I created a 2 GB swap on the disk as I had to have a 1 GB swap on 10.0. It failed trying ever option I could. I even put the orginal disk in as a slave and tried to use it's swap. I seems I am going to have to install 10.0 on the drive and then see if I can then do a fresh install. I doubt it. As booting from the 10.1 CD's going into rescue system and creating partitions did not seem to help 10.1. I know on 10.0 I was able to do this to install it. Thanks for the below. As that is what I have been trying. I just need to find my purchased copy of 10.0 now to try and install it. I may have to go the update route again to get 10.1 to install. I know that it did not help in rescue mode to format the partitions with the 10.1 CD disks and create a swap. Thanks for the below. That is what I have been trying.
**Partition the spare to match your original hda, only obviously the slices must be much smaller. Remember, the first small slice is a primary and the remaining space is an extended carrying two logical partitions: hdn5 (swap) and hdn6 ("/") Be sure to keep hdn6 large enough to hold the installed 10.1. This step is important because you want the subsequent installation to match your original paths.**
Install 10.1 on the spare drive. Treat this installation like it is going to be permanent, too, with respect to your desktop and software selections and configuration of hardware, mount points, etc. This system is hopefully going to be transferred to your original drive.
Boot 10.1 and test the original "/" filesystem for corruption. If, say, that partition is mapping to '/dev/hdd6' you'd run 'reiserfsck /dev/hdd6' as root. *DO NOT* attempt any repairs of any kind if corruption is found. If that happens, you MUST find a way to make a backup while the drive can still be read and, hopefully, all or most of your data can be copied wholesale to a safe place. If the filesystem passes the initial check, then mount it *read only* so you can visually sanity-check it for obvious problems. ...
The 10.1 CD's tell me that the orignal disk is OK and does not have any errors. Thanks for the other suggestions. That is what I was going to do. You would like an old dog like me who has been using linux since the first Linus' releases would not do such dumb things. I have been in business since 1979 and my first Unix experience was in the late 1960/early 1970's with the PDP 11 and some earlier machines. I just do not remember what they were right now. I have/had every version of SUSE Linux, and most of the other orignal distro's. I guess it is time I followed my own council and backed things up. Just because one have been doing this for many years does not stop things from happening. Thanks everyone for the assistance. I will have to restore my win 2000 and UnixWare but at least I should have my data once I finish this merathon of installation and recovery of the data. - -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFEc5M7VtBjDid73eYRAsTpAJoCP49nw0fkNcsjartccMcyhV6snQCeLLJ6 5nweF0hBqcF+SHqyUyfOkGU= =0TYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----