My midterm grade could depend on this-NEWBIE NEEDS HELP!

[kuber]

OK...
I had Redhat 6.2 running nicely-love it. Then I tried to upgrade to 7.0 through FTP installation. Everything has gone to hell since. When my PC boots all I get is
LI
as in LILO starting up, but it pauses! ARGH!
I don't mind having to reinstall but I NEED to get to a file in my home directory (midterm paper). What can I do?

Thanks!

kuber

[Letalis]

Boot from that diskette you made during install/update (you made one right...) and mount /dev/hdxx ... that way you can read/edit it but i dont know how to get it somwhere else. Maybee you can unmount / in some way.

[kuber]

I didn't make one.... argh.

I tried using the rescue mode and mounting:
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/hard
and I created the /mnt/hard but nothing appeared there.
Can I do a partionless install and not lose my home directory stuff?

kuber

[Strike]

If you had a separate /home partition (I always do now because of crap like that), you can reinstall without re-initializing (formatting) that partition and all your data will remain intact.

[kuber]

I'll have to do that this time around... hmm... I have an extra hard drive laying around and I think I'm going to unplug the one w/ the file, plug in this extra one and install-then I'll plug them both in and try to mount the disk-what do you think?

[gmoreno]

IF you REALLY need to get that paper or whatever you might have to buy redhat which comes with a diskette and boot off of it on to your system you would have to do some thinge like mount root=/dev/hda5 or mount resue=/dev/hda5. Something like that. Depending on what your hardrive is (master slave ect.) and what partition you have /hom in. ONce you have the diskette you can do trial and error. The command my vary, in slack I think I did the same thing. by doing mount root=/dev/hda5

[Unruly]

You could always make a boot disk from the redhat site... try booting up off of that then go from there..

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