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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:01:28 -0800
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
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> >> > 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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