[ale] First time trashing Linux

[Neal Wilkinson]

I can get Tom's disk. My wifes machine has linux as well. Is this it?
http://www.toms.net/rb/ Also the errors taken from the boot.log are:

/etc/rc5.d/S13partmon:line1 /usr/bin/partmon: no such file or directory

/usr/sbin/fndsession:line12:perl: command not found

/etc/rc5.d/S85numlock:line25:setleds: command not found

kheader: /ect/rc6.d/k20kheader:line1dirname: command not found

Thanks,

Neal


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Geoffrey
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:14 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] First time trashing Linux
>
>
> First off, you should get your hands on a copy of Tom's root/boot linux
> bootable floppy.  No one should be without it.  Should be a law.
>
> That might be difficult at this point, as your box sounds pretty hosed.
>
> Have you attempted a rescue via the Mandrake 9.0 cd install?
>
> If you can provide more specifics regarding the error messages you're
> getting that might help as well. (references to files in /usr/bin...)
>
> Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> > I'm a new Linux user and am running Mandrake 9.0. I've run it
> several months
> > without many problems. I upgraded my Mozilla to 1.3a and
> everything was fine
> > until I had a sudden urge to use online banking. I had
> originally installed
> > without having Personal Security Manager for some reason. It
> seems like the
> > first time the install wasn't run from a GUI so maybe that is
> why and I just
> > missed the switch. Anyhow that was several weeks ago and it has
> worked fine.
> > I downloaded the most recent "nightly build" and ran the
> install. It was GUI
> > and had PSM checked by default. The first time I tried to
> install it I got
> > about 7 error messages but they were really blank buttons, no real info
> > gleaned here except the install didn't work. The next time it
> went fine but
> > did ask me to uninstall the copy on the system. It did this for me
> > supposedly. After the install it wouldn't run so I rebooted under the
> > thought that doing something totally irrevelant might fix the
> problem. When
> > I boot I get a couple of error messages that I haven't had before both
> > related to files in /usr/bin which is where the install and removal were
> > taking place. I then go right to bash and never make it to KDE.
> Of course I
> > have no emergency boot disk. I created a boot floppy from
> another system but
> > it provides the same results. I have run fsck without it fixing
> anything but
> > it seems to run awfully fast. I'm not really sure where to go
> next and would
> > welcome a hint or two. Being still very Linux stupid I don't have the
> > mindset yet to troubleshoot effectively. The dir command won't
> work anymore
> > which I found odd but that may be something simple. ls works
> fine. Any idea
> > on where I should start? I'd be happy to provide more specific
> information
> > error messages etc. if it might help. It appears to me that the
> boot process
> > isn't finishing for some reason. Since I can't imagine how
> Mozilla could do
> > this I'm thinking that something must be corrupt. Thanks.
> >
> > Neal
> >
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