Hi! Dunno if it's common knowledge or not, but you can write zeros to the first ten megs of the hard drive (giving you a very "clean slate") by booting to a shell prompt via cd and entering:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=10240 assuming, of course, your drive is hda. Substitute as appropriate. THIS WILL EFFECTIVELY COMPLETELY DELETE ALL INFORMATION ON YOUR DISK!!! and let you start over. On Tuesday 10 December 2002 06:37 pm, wrote: > Hi All, > In the last hour or so I have begun to install SuSE Linux on an Acer > Extensa 367D lap top. The computer has 2.02 Gb Hd and 80Mb ram. > > I am using YaST2 as the installation program. in step 2, I choose the > "Default with Office" package, in step 3 (Detailed Software Window) I > selected - under the Catagories list - GNOME which indicated I would have > about 260 Mb of free disk space upon completion of installation. > > LiLo is set to use the MBR of /dev/hda. I have a Root, a Swap, and a / > partition on my disk. I followed the Personalize Software screen > instructions and set a Root password and confirmed the installation data > and began installation of the software packages. The first CD installation > was complete and (successful?) and I was prompted to insert CD #2. > > Now my computer is in a freeze at the installation of gmailwat, the GNOME > mail package. The install progress bar is showing about 63% completion. > > Does anyone have an idea of how to recover? There is no sound nor vibration > from either the HD or the CD-ROM. A watch face is stationary on screen, I > cannot move it, the arrow keys are useless, the Back and Next buttons are > grayed out and the Abort Installation appears active but unaccessable. > > Can I "pull the plug" and restart? LiLo is in fact on the HD, does that > mean I can boot to Linux? How do I continue the installation if I am able > to resart the computer? > > Thanks, Richard > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
