On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:58:56PM -0800, Rusty Minden wrote:
> I suspect you are correct about the KDE 2.1 needing more disk space, but I am
> not sure about how to help with this, but I am sending this to the vox-tech
> list. If anyone can help Chor with this please e-mail him at his address.
No comment since I don't know what the question was.
> On Wednesday 21 March 2001 08:13, you wrote:
> > Hey Rusty,
> >
> > Can you give my some tips on how to fix my Linux OS. Well, I tried to
> > upgrade the SuSe 2.0 kernel to 2.1 the way you showed me at the
> > Installfest, but after I restarted my linux OS a message comes up:
I hope you don't mean kernel version 2.1. That is a development version and
an old one at that. Use either 2.2.x or 2.4.x.
> > "ran out of input data
> > system halted"
> >
> > I think the problem may be because the new kernel package went beyond the
> > available partition disk space allocated for the linux OS. I'm not sure.
> > Anyway, can you give me some tips to restore my linux OS from using the
> > start- up disk.
I suggest you get tomsrtbt (Tom's Root Boot), a single-floppy Linux
distribution. I believe you can write the floppy image from a Windows machine
using rawrite. Boot it up, mount your drive, and start fixing. URL:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
See also the other mini distributions on Freshmeat:
http://freshmeat.net/browse/665/
It is also possible load a kernel from a floppy but mount the hard drive as
root filesystem. You need to dd your kernel image (/boot/vmlinuz-2.x.x) to a
formatted floppy. Try 'dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k'. Then set the root
filesystem in the image using rdev: 'rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1' (change
/dev/hda1 to whatever you use). You may use this technique to make your own
rescue floppy.
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