Re: how to reinstall?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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.

> 5) complete install
> 6) run apt-get update/install
> 
> and then reinstall other progs (evo) and drivers (nVidia) as required?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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