How Do I Wipe And Reinstall Puppy And GRUB From hda2 ext2 HD

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How Do I Wipe And Reinstall Puppy And GRUB From hda2 ext2 HD

#1 Post by EdFromHouston »

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I installed Puppy Beta 2.12 to my old laptop with a CD-ROM and Windows ME. I used GParted to create an EXT2 partition and also installed GRUB to my HDD.

How do I wipe the partition clean and uninstall Puppy 2.12 Beta and Grub without uninstalling Windows ME?

I've been reading the other post for several hours and can't find any information on this.

The laptop has a read only CD and the USB doesn't work, it wont mount and this is solved in the final version of 2.12 that I want to install.

Thanks
Ed

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#2 Post by ezeze5000 »

Can you boot puppy from your CD?

If so, boot puppy then open your console and just format the partition that has puppy on it.

Like this example: mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda2

Then just use your universal puppy installer.

Menu - Setup - Puppy universal installer.

Follow the prompts.

Install GRUB again, it will replace what you have there now.

I hope this helps.
If at first you don't succeed try try again!

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#3 Post by Gn2 »

EFH

Please use Puppy's

Code: Select all

fdisk -l
To confirm all partitions used .
After new install - it is safest to create a bootable floppy disc.
It may use Grub or Lilo - dual or single boot anything.
That way, the MBR will never be touched !

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=IS ... arch&meta=

If uncertain how to do above, Plse post back


HTH

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#4 Post by EdFromHouston »

I see said the blind man! Sometimes I can't see the forest because all those stupid trees keep getting in the way. Thanks I'll try it out.

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#5 Post by EdFromHouston »

BTW, How do I boot the live CD with GRUB installed to the HDD or how do I uninstall Grub to boot the CD?

Edit: Nevermind, I thought I put a CD into the drive but it was a DVD. I'll copy an iso over to a CD and see if it will boot off that. It's the overeating caused by the stuffing clogging my memory I think. I'll get back to you in a few.

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#6 Post by Gn2 »

:lol: :lol: :lol:

You must be from wide-open spaces !
Where I hail from - most have a backwards facing, hocky team emblazoned cap -
We have so many trees they all get "clear cut"

I deplore this practice, replaced the chain saw w/Google.
Not always a clear view - but helps.

Best of success

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#7 Post by EdFromHouston »

Wow thanks!

I reinstalled the whole thing, GRUB, Puppy, I reformatted the HDD.

My problem earlier was I tried too hard with a Windows form of thinking. All I had to do is use common sense and type. This OS is so cool. It'll do everything if I learn basic commands. This stupid pine tree keeps slapping me in the face as I type!

The more I've used Linux the more I like it. I think if I learn the commands well I could far exceed my Windows experience 10 fold.

Thanks again and when I learn this thing I'll start helping others more. I haven't posted much because of that.

I've tried other distros and this IS the best!

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#8 Post by Gn2 »

Indeed a pleasure neighbour !

As sign hung in western watering hole - over spittoon -sez:
"We aim to Please" - "watch your aim too, please"

BTW One of my Fav Westerns was "Pale Rider"
But never knew WTH a RBRider was - so natch, I did as always & Googled >
There was once a RBR and a Biker who lived next door to each other. The RBR owned a hen and each morning would look in his garden and pick up one of his hen's eggs for breakfast. One day he looked into his garden and saw that the hen had laid an egg in the Biker's garden. He was about to go next door when he saw the Biker pick up the egg. The RBR ran up to the Biker and told him that the egg belonged to him because he owned the hen.

The Biker disagreed because the egg was laid on his property. They argued for a while until finally the RBR said, "In my family we normally solve disputes by the following actions: I kick you in the b_ _ s and time how long it takes you to get back up, then you kick me in the b__s and time how long it takes for me to get up. ~ Whoever gets up quicker wins the egg." The Biker agreed to this and so the RBR found his heaviest pair of motorcycle boots and put them on, he took a few steps back, then ran toward the Biker and kicked him as hard as he could in the b- - -s !
. The Biker fell to the floor clutching his nether regions and howling in agony for 30 minutes.
Eventually the Biker stood up and said, "Now it's MY turn to kick you."

The RBR said, "Keep the f****ing egg."
An' I STILL don't know what a RBR is !
But you can bet - that Bike rider was one :P palefaced pilgrim .

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