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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:01:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10701271301lc7bd365p471f682db19834dd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45BBB713.4020001@paradise.net.nz>

> >> > 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.

I haven't checked the laptop drive yet.  Can I make a smartmontools
package for the x86 laptop on the amd64 desktop?  How can I do that?

- Grant
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-27 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-25 16:20 [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help Grant
2007-01-25 17:22 ` Thomas Lingefelt
2007-01-25 18:20   ` Grant
     [not found]     ` <49bf44f10701251028n5813295cycdd61aea0cc08347@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-25 19:16       ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-01-25 21:19         ` Kent Fredric
2007-01-26 17:47           ` Grant
2007-01-26 18:16             ` Grant
2007-01-26 20:24               ` Randy Barlow
2007-01-26 20:20             ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-26 22:16               ` kashani
2007-01-26 22:43             ` Matthias Bethke
2007-01-27  1:53               ` Grant
2007-01-27 16:38                 ` Grant
2007-01-27 18:23                   ` Mick
2007-01-27 18:51                     ` Grant
2007-01-27 19:43                       ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2007-01-27 20:10                         ` Grant
2007-01-27 20:33                           ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-01-27 21:01                             ` Grant [this message]
2007-01-27 21:19                               ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-01-27 22:39                                 ` Grant
2007-01-27 23:03                                   ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-01-28  0:01                                     ` Grant
2007-01-28  6:54                                       ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-01-28  4:36                                     ` Grant
2007-01-28  6:26                                       ` Kent Fredric
2007-01-28  6:20                               ` Kent Fredric
2007-01-28  6:17                       ` Kent Fredric
2007-01-27 23:09                   ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-27 23:20                     ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-28  0:05                     ` Grant
2007-01-28 10:37                       ` Neil Bothwick
     [not found]                 ` <20070127171100.GF11364@huxley>
2007-01-27 17:34                   ` Grant
2007-01-28 15:55                     ` Matthias Bethke
2007-01-28 17:15                       ` Grant
2007-01-28 17:40                         ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-28 17:58                         ` Mark Knecht
2007-01-29 16:08                           ` Grant
2007-01-25 17:55 ` Matthias Bethke

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