Bad update - X11 corrupted
Martin Stone
martin.stone at db.com
Wed Apr 14 16:43:07 UTC 2004
I disagree... let's find out more about what the problem is first before we
encourage him to blow away his whole install.
Keith wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:07, Dick Brown wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>> I recently decided to upgrade from RH8 to Fedora. I downloaded the
>>.iso files, burned them and installed without a hitch (checked the
>>md5sum and the finished CDs first).
>> Unfortunately, when I performed the system update, the X11 package
>>was corrupted. Now I can't boot into Fedora normally. I can get in
>>through the "Linux rescue" from the install disk, but I'm afraid I don't
>>know what to do from there. I'm at that dangerous stage where I know
>>enough to get myself into trouble, but not enough to get myself out, so
>>I don't really want to touch anything without some advice first. Is
>>there an easy fix to this?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dick
>
>
> Did you make a boot disk when you changed to fedora?
> You could use
> linux single
> on the command line to boot in single mode.
> There is a way to create a rescue disk on the
> the first CD-ROM.
>
> The best thing to do is to backup your /home directory and maybe
> /usr/local if you need to and do a clean install. If you have
> other areas with data you need to save then also include those.
>
> tar cvfz home.tar.gz /home
> tar cvfz local.tar.gz /usr/local
> then you need to copy or move them to another disks
> or burn them to a cdrom using cdrecord.
>
>
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