Re: Not Enough Memory Error?

From: Charlie (geezer1016_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:32:09 GMT

Jabo wrote:
> 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.
>
Well it is all a done deal right now. The last time I tried to repair
the partition everything was gone. Nothing there at all. I went ahead
and installed 10.0.
I really hate windows but sometimes this is a little frustrating to,
still I dont have to scan for spyware every 30 seconds.

Charlie

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