Re: [SLE] Messed up my 9.2
- From: B Stia <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:30:13 -0500
Mark A. Taff wrote:
Hmmmm..... That should have been a :-( Wonderful. I guess that is why, when I tried to reinstall the system from the install command, it told me I had to delete files from the / partition because it was full. Didn't understand what that was at the time. Guess I am screwed and need to do a reinstall. Really hate to do that because I have so many extra programs and have updated 9.2 to almost 10.0 configuration. That includes KDE and Xine and my DVD stuff etc. etc.On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:39, B Stia wrote
That is because the repair tool put /var on the / partition, instead of on it's own partition. So you do not need an fstab line to mount a partition that doesn't exist. ;-)Now, the system will boot into SuSE but will drop back to a command prompt. I can log in as root and cd into any of my directories, including /var and then -ls to see what is in there. All OK. But when I cat etc/fstab the /var line is not there. The old directory /partition which I deleted remains in that file. Sooo, I am pretty sure (hopefully) that if I can edit fstab I can make it OK again.
As another poster said, adding another disk, then `rsync`ing /home over to the new disk is a great way to add room to a system. I weekly rsync every /home on my network to an old PII machine as a painless easy backup.Welllll.... I have backed up /home and a few other important directories to my other hard drive using kdar. They are inaccessible right now but could be restored with a new install.
vi has two modes, a command mode and an insert mode (text mode). The command `i` begins text mode, and `[esc]` ends text mode. See:Thanks for the link on the tutorial. Went and got it. Not very important right now since editing fstab is not an issue.
http://www.collaborium.org/onsite/venezuela/docs/linux/linux_guides/vi/#basics3
for a basic tutorial.
Seems like the major issue now is that you can't get a gui started. If that is so, tryWell....... telenit 5 worked but it didn't get me to a gui. Just another cli where I could log in as a user. Neither did kdestart, with an unknown command reply, or a startx which produced a "startx is not installed". I guess that my system, thanks to "repair system" and my ignorance is so screwed up that I have no choice except to reinstall.
`telinit 5` as a first whack to see if you get lucky.
Failing that, `startkde`
The output from startkde should give you some indication of where the issue is.
Maybe I will just get 10.0 and see if I can restore my /home and the other backed-up/important data without huge problems.
Anyway, I thank you for your attempts to help me. Any other ideas/tips to restore this mess would certainly be welcomed.
Bob S.
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