[plug] re: reinstall or rebuild

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jon L. Miller wrote:

> Got a friend who has install rh62 on a dual boot system (2 hard disk
> (win95/rh62)).  He noticed he was missing some major apps (gnome being one
> of them).  So he went about a reinstallation and of course the system asked
> what type of installation and he chose upgrading the existing installation
> or something like that.  What ended up happening is when he went to boot
> first LILO shows up then the next line then it just hangs there forever.
> Any ideal what went wrong?
> I suggested the following:
> copy the lilo.conf file to a safe place (floppy)
> remove the win95 drive
> blow away the linux drive and rebuild from a fresh install.
> copy the lilo.conf file back and reboot.
> 
> Not knowing if this will work, I need to find out if it will.  Also when
> doing an automatic install does Linux over write the win95 drive? or will it
> ask which device to put the boot partition on?  If rebuilding the drive is
> the best way what is the best way to blow away linux?

any of the "automagic" installs will now ask if you wante to partition
manually or if you want to let RedHat do it.  So you shouldn't have to worry
about the install destroying Win95.


Before you go to the extreme of reinstalling everything.  During the install
process you (or your friend) would have been asked to create a resuce disk,
did you create one ???

If so you should be able to get the system running from the boot disk and fix
lilo with only a little fuss.

Yours Tony.

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