-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, here's something that will work. Delete your hosed /usr partition Create a FAT partition that is larger than 80 megs Get ZipSlack from www.slackware.com. It's a zipfile of a functioning UMSDOS system. Somehow unzip that thing into your new ?: drive. If it comes down to it you can boot a MS floppy, make the partition bootable and transfer the zip file over a floppy at a time. You could make things nice on yourself if you can move the zipfile over all at once via a SuperDisk or Zip drive. Now, use loadlin in ?:linux\root\loadlin to boot your linux kernel. This is a fully functional linux system so now you can do network access to format that other unallocated space as ext2. Heck, you could even download debian and do all your installation work from here. The point is, you're now running linux on that soon-to-be hibernation area and you can leverage that into doing an install of whatever you like. Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On 8 Dec 2001, Jon Schewe wrote: > I've got a challenge here. I've got a machine that lost it's /usr partition > because the machine did a hibernate over it. It's debian installed, at least > what's left of it. It has no cdrom drive and the floppy drive can't be > accessed by Linux because it's on a PCMCIA card and that doesn't appear to be > supported, but I can boot off the floppy, just can't load a ramdisk from it. > > So I want to do 2 things: > 1 - take the last partition, that was /usr, and make it two partitions, /usr, > and a 32MB FAT-16 partition (for the hibernate). This could be tricky because > I'd need to repartition a live system. > > 2 - reinstall the OS so things aren't hosed again, most any Linux distribution > would do, although I'd prefer SuSE or Debian > > Anyone got any ideas? > > -- > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8FD6XfexLsowstzcRAjW2AKC/EiVDv0hPR//y2h5df6m1/Ma8mACgynko NAWwLUypXj4vB962IT424/8= =0Z+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----