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Install Gentoox Pro 2.0 on G Partition
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:13 am
by crow
Need information:
Can i enter START= sectors during install or iso need to be recompiled.
THis topic explains it for MCE 1.2
viewtopic.php?t=1827&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
THnx.
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 12:01 am
by ShALLaX
You could break into the installer with ctrl-c, then edit /etc/gentooxinstaller to change the START=... once done, run sh /etc/gentooxinstaller to resume.
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:26 am
by crow
Huh i do that but is sims not help. I only get the F partition destroyed. No data on it or on G(for G is not important).
I log to xbox, edit the installed script:
Scrool to the line 479 and changed the START= to
Save the vi with ":wq" and then run installer
It format something and try to mounting then i get some error not enough free space and halt. After rebooting and going to dash i see that i dont have any data on F partition. Is there any way i can restore them.
After lookin in your installer script i see the
dd line that start to format from
ANd that destroyed my data
((( and you didnt tell about dd line egg MCE 1.1 didnt have it also
((
Part of installer script:
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# Start block for the end of the standard 8GB hdd
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START=15633072
SWAPSIZE="+256M"
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# Options for deleting all possible partitions from the drive
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echo -e "d\n1\nd\n2\nd\n10\nd\n9\nd\n8\nd\n7\nd\n6\nd\n5\nd\n3\nd\n4\nw" > /t
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# Zero out the partition table
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda seek=15633072 bs=512 count=1 > /dev/null 2>&1
fdisk $DEVICE < /tmp/make.fdisk > /dev/null 2>&1
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:23 pm
by Zombie13
I did the exact same thing with GentooX Home, and lost my F partition. That's why I did the installs on a fresh hard disk, so it didn't matter if I lost anything.
I'd recommend anyone not to partition and format disks with valuable data on, without being either 100% confident in what you are doing, or making a backup.