Repair - Reinstall - Restore

[Norberto Quintanar]

--- Olaf Olson <> wrote:

> I had a power drop here. Unfortunately, as some others have pointed
> out, 
> the UPS doesn't always have enough juice to make it through a
> shutdown, 
> especially since shutdown's not automatic. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO
> THIS 
> THREAD, with suggestions about how to make auto shutdown work.  I
> will 
> ask the question later, about auto shutdown while on a UPS, I need
> to 
> ask the bigger question:
> 
> How do I recover? I have several holes in the recovered disk, 
> specifically, XFree86 is hosed, so no X. I can, of course, boot
> from the 
> CD and completely reinstall, but that appears to include
> repartitioning, 
> which will destroy everything. I don't want stuff destroyed. Also,
> it 
> appears that samba isn't working, wither, so I can't go to other 
> machines in my network and pull my data off so I can then reinstall
> the 
> whole thing.
> 
> I thought I once saw a posting here about booting to a recovery CD,
> but 
> I can't find that in the archives. Also, the only disk of the 6 I
> got 
> with YDL 3.0.1 is the installation CD and it wants to go directly
> to 
> installation.
> 
> I can boot to console only - no X, so I can run yum and the like,
> but 
> there isn't any command like "yum 
> reinstallEverythingThatIsMissingFromTheOriginalInstall" so I am
> really 
> not certain how to go about fixing it all.
> 
> Of course, backup procedures seem to be a good preventative
> measure. I 
> will work on that for the future and will probably post a few
> questions 
> along that line, too. PLEASE don't reply to this post with backup 
> solutions. Start a new thread if you plan on giving advice about
> that, 
> as it makes the searches go a bit easier, when looking for things
> in the 
> archive.
> 
> I have a G3 B&W, with 256Mb RAM, a 20 Gb drive and the stock video.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.
> 
> Olaf

Olaf, I had a similar experience awhile ago.  Power outage hosed my
6500/250 completeley.  When you boot off the CD you will get to the
install and after the install prompt it will say something like" OS
already detected on partition is this a repair?"  I was able to get
back into my file system and get my files, but nothing worked right
after that.  YUM was a big disaster, dependencies wera another. 
Overall, I was glad to get my files and I just completely reinstalled
on a new hard drive.  HTH
Norberto



		
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