Re: Power failure during Slack9 setup

From: John Schulz (schulzjf_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: 28 Aug 2003 17:51:49 -0700

> > Then the power dropped for just long enough to crash the setup which
> > had only been running 20 seconds, tops. It had only installed the
> > first 3 or 4 packages in the 'a' series. I rebooted without the CD to
> > see what remained of my Slackware 8.0 (2.2.19? kernel) install and
> > hoping the "not cleanly unmounted. Check forced" message would appear
> > and clean up any problems created by kicking the chair out from under
> > the disk.
> >
> >
> > So, how do I:
> > 1)Fix any damage on the drives
> > OR
> > 2)Re-format, or otherwise prepare, the drives to accept the
> > installation?
>
> Boot from the bootable CD and wipe the drive.
>
> !!!! WARNING !!!!
> !!!! THIS WILL DELETE ALL PARTITIONS !!!!
> !!!! IT WILL WIPE THE DRIVE AND REMOVE ALL DATA !!!!
>
> !!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!!
>
> cat /dev/zero >/dev/hdX
>
> Where hdX would be the correct drive or partition ie.(hda, hda4)
> This will take several minutes depending on the size of the
> drive. Then try the install again being sure to format the
> partitions.

  I just ran e2fsck and corrected the errors.

thanks.j

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