 | | | 3 questions | 3 questions 2003-05-24 - By Suprotip Ghosh
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dear Enigma-l,
The whole thing started when I tried loading
ayttm-0.3.0-1.i386.rpm. A large dependency problem cropped up. The
net told me that there was a software called APT that was used to
solve dep probs. After lot of hassle, i managed a forced install
(my fault, no hard feelings)of ayttm which beautifully ruined my
rpm libraries by upgrading (!!) them to 4.0.4. no GNOrpm! no
KPackage!!
Post-lots-of-heroics, i have now decided to reinstall. But,
somehow my floppy drive has gone kaput (is it possible after
accidentally ejecting a floppy without unmounting it?)...though it
did NOT happen instanlty after that accident, i am unable to boot
RH 7.2 ( i was using a bootdisk). Reinstalling seems to be the
only option, because RH setup does not allow the option of
installing a boot loader in upgrade mode w/o an "upgrade in the
Kernel". I tried LOADLIN, but big problem is, that i don't have a
/boot (which inci, RH setup had not allowed when I tried to
install RH 7.2 at the end of my 20 GB SAMSUNG UATA, strangely, the
last one of the 4 partitions never got written to ptable, i had to
abandon /boot!!). Any ideas as to:
1. What happened to my flop...(of course not)
2. How to try and load linux now? at least a way to salvage my
initrd and bzimage will do, i guess.
3. is there a bug regarding the partitioning scheme in RH 7.2
setup that restricts the schema i tried? if not, any suggestions
as to what went wrong?
(I have to add that my RH 7.2 nash was running stably.)
please HELP!
Suprotip
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