Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

[Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>]

Grant wrote:
>> > and the vi command always seg faults.  Does that mean the /dev/hda3
>> > image is done-for and I should just start the laptop over from scratch
>> > and import my /etc/ and /home/ directories when it's re-installed?
>>
>> I would try putting it all back and re-emerge everything (emerge -vaD
>> --emptytree world). It would fix if anything bad happened to the compiled
>> things and you could start using the things which survived sooner.
> 
> I tried re-emerging vim from within the chroot and I got:
> 
> /usr/portage/eclass/vim.eclass: line 342: make: command not found
> 
> What do you think?
>

Have you checked the laptop drive? If it is faulty then re-installing is 
just wasting your time.

I would recommend checking the drive with smartmontools before going any 
further. Given the problems outlined above, I would make a package for 
it on your desktop and do a binary install of the result on the laptop.

Good luck

Mark
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