Re: Not Enough Memory Error?

From: Jabo (beitrag_at_sags-per-mail.de)
Date: 10/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:21:52 +0200

Charlie wrote:

> I think this is hopeless.

I don't belive yet...

What comes to my mind is that we are still takling arround in circles
about a *partition*, not the *disk* it is on.

Something in the installation process has happened, I believe from what
I've read, that you didn't monitor (chasing cat away from keyboard,
getting cup of coffee.... what ever). And now there is a x MB partiton
that is trying to boot.

This is why noi wanted you to test "fdisk -l"

You wouldn't see what stuff is mounted, but what partitions are visible to
"fdisk" without applying any changes.

We just believe all your data is still there, but not mounted to the
system you boot and which we are talking about right now. You might got
stuck in some spare megabytes from some previous action.

Give it a try at least, maybe booting from knoppix or so, and follow nois'
suggestion.

There are still no technical parameters for us to follow, but we need them
to tell the next steps to be taken. I only say that because you did not
answer any questions on that...

I case you just ended up in a broken partition *after* flooding everything
else, there is still a chance to kill that partition and start over
again. 

-- 
kind regards,
jens

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