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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:07:46
Message-Id: 49bf44f10701271301lc7bd365p471f682db19834dd@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help by Mark Kirkwood
1 > >> > and the vi command always seg faults. Does that mean the /dev/hda3
2 > >> > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch
3 > >> > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
4 > >>
5 > >> I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD
6 > >> --emptytree world). It would fix if anything bad happened to the compiled
7 > >> things and you could start using the things which survived sooner.
8 > >
9 > > I tried re-emerging vim from within the chroot and I got:
10 > >
11 > > /usr/portage/eclass/vim.eclass: line 342: make: command not found
12 > >
13 > > What do you think?
14 > >
15 >
16 > Have you checked the laptop drive? If it is faulty then re-installing is
17 > just wasting your time.
18 >
19 > I would recommend checking the drive with smartmontools before going any
20 > further. Given the problems outlined above, I would make a package for
21 > it on your desktop and do a binary install of the result on the laptop.
22
23 I haven't checked the laptop drive yet. Can I make a smartmontools
24 package for the x86 laptop on the amd64 desktop? How can I do that?
25
26 - Grant
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help Mark Kirkwood <markir@××××××××××××.nz>
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>