Re: full disk, how can I delete if I cannot boot up?, or how to interrrupt boot
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 06:37:16PM +0200, Daniel Germer wrote:
> hi that one that I had sent before, now as txtmail :-),
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> as a very new user, type:housewive, I wanted to install
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> debian on my laptop, everything went fine, I made disk partitions (only for linux) because I heard it is better to separate partitions for boot sector, swap, and userfiles....
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> I have made four partitions for linux, and left the one existing compaq partition of BIOS stuff/compaq diagnostics untouched...
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> then a 600Mb for the bootable linux
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> then 150MB for swap linux
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> and then another two logical partitions of the remaining disk (together approx. 3.3Gb)
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> I booted with "woody" first disk, everything fine, produced a boot diskette, and then went on to install further packages: the desktop environment, tex/LaTex, and others
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> at the end I got a message saying, that something went wrong with installing the packages, and it suggested to just retry installing the stuff which I did, but in the end I jsut got messages that it was unable to write to disk because disk was full.
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> (I think I made the error of just letting debian decide where to put things, and wanted too much, and then my disk was full)
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> I want to do it better, but I cannot restart the computer and delete stuff, neither from the CD, nor from the boot disk (which then goes to the root section on the harddisk (hda)
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> in the booting process recognizes all partitions and then stops 5 min because tried to respawn to fast, tries another ten files and stops for five min because respawn to fast...
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> what can I do to delete the stuff and start all over????
Instead of using the boot disk you made during the install, re-start
the installer using the installer rescue floppy, or if you used a CD
then boot again from the CD. Then just re-initialize your partitions
and go for it again.
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