[02:33] <gluttony> hey jrib
[02:33] <jrib> gluttony: hi
[02:33] <gluttony> so, we left off at me putting the # on line ten in fstab
[02:34] <jrib> gluttony: yes
[02:34] <jrib> gluttony: can you pastebin what it looks like now?
[02:36] <gluttony> http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/21768/
[02:37] <jrib> ok
[02:37] <jrib> now, you have copied /usr to /usr.backup correct?
[02:37] <gluttony> in the process of
[02:39] <gluttony> and still, it goes...
[02:43] <gluttony> was the pastbin right?
[02:43] <jrib> hmm?
[02:43] <jrib> oh yes, it was correct
[02:44] <gluttony> ok, command is done
[02:45] <jrib> now reboot in recovery mode and do:  mv /usr.backup /usr
[03:08] <gluttony> jrib, it didnt work again
[03:08] <jrib> gluttony: strange...
[03:08] <jrib> gluttony: did you get any errors when you did the mv?
[03:08] <gluttony> no
[03:08] <jrib> it should have worked...
[03:08] <jrib> are you on the live cd now?
[03:08] <gluttony> whats the right way to restart a comp in recovery mode
[03:08] <gluttony> yes, i am
[03:08] <jrib> "reboot"
[03:09] <jrib> gluttony: do you remember how to mount hda3?
[03:09] <gluttony> eh, no
[03:09] <jrib> sudo mkdir /media/hda3 && sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /media/hda3
[03:10] <gluttony> do that now?
[03:10] <jrib> yes
[03:11] <gluttony> ok
[03:12] <jrib> pastebin: gedit /media/hda3/etc/fstab
[03:12] <gluttony> gksudo right?
[03:12] <jrib> if you want, but not needed
[03:12] <jrib> I just want to see the contents
[03:13] <jrib> to try to understand what happened
[03:14] <gluttony> does it matter that my live cd is a differnt distro than what i run?
[03:14] <jrib> nope
[03:14] <gluttony> !pastebin
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[03:15] <gluttony> http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/21774/
[03:15] <jrib> ok, how about:  ls /media/hda3/usr
[03:16] <gluttony> usr.backup
[03:17] <jrib> haha :)
[03:17] <gluttony> what?
[03:17] <jrib> ok, sudo mv /media/hda3/usr/usr.backup /media/hda3/usr.backup && sudo rmdir /media/hda3/usr && sudo mv /media/hda3/usr.backup /media/hda3/usr
[03:18] <jrib> nothing, silly mistake on my part
[03:18] <gluttony> oh
[03:18] <gluttony> so, what do we need to do
[03:19] <jrib> that big long command after "ok,"
[03:19] <gluttony> oh, lol, i missed that somehow
[03:19] <gluttony> && starts a new command right?
[03:20] <jrib> yes, but if you leave && in there and run the whole thing it should work
[03:20] <gluttony> oh, i already ran the individual commands
[03:20] <jrib> cmd1 && cmd2  means: do cmd2 if cmd1 is successful
[03:20] <gluttony> they took no time
[03:20] <jrib> ok
[03:20] <jrib> now, ls /media/hda3/usr
[03:21] <gluttony> bin  games  include  lib  lost+found  usr  X11R6
[03:21] <jrib> great
[03:21] <jrib> umm lets reboot before we mess anything else to make sure it works...
[03:21] <gluttony> so, did it work?
[03:22] <jrib> looks like it
[03:22] <jrib> reboot and if it works, load up this live cd again and come back so we can move /home
[03:22] <gluttony> sso usr is where home is and vice versa?
[03:22] <jrib> no, we only moved /usr to hda3.  Now everything is there
[03:22] <gluttony> ah
[03:22] <gluttony> cool
[03:23] <gluttony> so, whats where usr was?
[03:23] <jrib> another copy of usr
[03:23] <jrib> we'll delete it after we make sure this is working
[03:23] <gluttony> ok
[03:23] <gluttony> how do we check
[03:24] <jrib> reboot without the livecd and see if it works
[03:32] <gluttony> jrib, loaded without the gui
[03:33] <jrib> umm
[03:33] <jrib> what errors did you get?
[03:34] <gluttony> none, it was just like running linux without a gui. ran like a terminal
[03:34] <jrib> hmm that definitely shouldn't have happened
[03:35] <jrib> gluttony: did you have to login?
[03:35] <gluttony> yeah
[03:35] <gluttony> asked me for all of that
[03:35] <gluttony> but i didn't know what to do after logging in. is it possible to lauch  x-chat in it?
[03:36] <jrib> ok lets mount again
[03:36] <jrib> do you recall how?
[03:36] <gluttony> ok
[03:37] <gluttony> no, sorry
[03:37] <gluttony> wait, no, i wrote it down
[03:37] <jrib> sudo mkdir /media/hda3 && sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /media/hda3
[03:38] <jrib> and do the same for sda1
[03:39] <gluttony> sudo mkdir /media/sda1 && sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/sda1   right?
[03:39] <jrib> yes
[03:40] <gluttony> ok, done
[03:41] <jrib> ok, do: cd /media
[03:41] <jrib> ls hda3/etc/rc2.d/*gdm*
[03:41] <gluttony> ok
[03:42] <gluttony> hda3/etc/rc2.d/S13gdm
[03:42] <gluttony> is there a way to launch x-chat if it does what it did last time?
[03:43] <jrib> well you could try to start X, but it's probably easier to use an irc client that works in the terminal, like irssi
[03:43] <gluttony> so that would be sudo apt-get install irssi ?
[03:43] <jrib> yep
[03:43] <gluttony> kk
[03:43] <gluttony> reboot now?
[03:44] <jrib> and basically you run "irssi"
[03:44] <gluttony> with " "?
[03:44] <jrib> no
[03:44] <gluttony> just type irssis, or run irssi?
[03:44] <jrib> in irssi, I'm not sure if autoconnects to freenode, but if not:  /connect freenode
[03:45] <jrib> you just type this:  irssi
[03:45] <jrib> after you're in irssi,
[03:45] <gluttony> ok
[03:45] <gluttony> i getcha
[03:45] <jrib>  /connect freenode
[03:45] <jrib>  /join #ubuntu-classroom
[03:45] <jrib> you can try it now on the livecd for practice
[03:46] <gluttony> wont let me connect to freenode
[03:47] <gluttony> needs to be irc.freenode.net
[03:48] <gluttony> so, i i reboot now?
[03:48] <jrib> ok, "Ubuntu" would work too
[03:48] <jrib> sure you can reboot now
[03:48] <gluttony> do you know how i change user name is irssi?
[03:49] <jrib> /nick foo
[03:49] <gluttony> where do i put the new name?
[03:49] <jrib> instead of "foo"
[03:49] <gluttony> o ok
[03:49] <gluttony> ok, rebooting
[03:50] <ubuntu_> reboot
[04:04] <jrib> so I guess, still no X
[04:04] <gluttony> jrib, i couldn'nt even do apt-get
[04:04] <jrib> hmm
[04:04] <jrib> what error?
[04:05] <gluttony> i dont even recall. it did go to the login text-based log in.
[04:05] <jrib> ok, I have a theory...
[04:05] <jrib> are you on the live cd?
[04:05] <gluttony> yes'r
[04:05] <jrib> mount hda3 and sda1
[04:06] <gluttony> sudo mkdir /media/sda1
[04:06] <jrib> gluttony: this is different than what happened when you forgot to edit fstab right?
[04:06] <gluttony> yes
[04:07] <gluttony> mounted
[04:07] <jrib> both of them?
[04:07] <jrib> cd /media/hda3
[04:08] <gluttony> yeah, i mounted hda3 when i first started
[04:08] <gluttony> k
[04:08] <jrib> ok, ls /media/sda1  <-- what does that return
[04:09] <gluttony> damn, irssi wont let me paste
[04:09] <jrib> why not?
[04:09] <gluttony> bin include lib32 lost+found share usr.backup
[04:09] <gluttony> games lib local sbin src X11R6
[04:10] <gluttony> whilst you think i need to shower. back in about 10
[04:12] <jrib> mv dir dir_that_does_not_exist  create dir_that_does_not_exist and moves dir inside apparently...
[04:14] <jrib> can't be...
[04:22] <gluttony> ok, back, jrib
[04:22] <jrib> gluttony: ok, something is wrong because usr.backup is in there
[04:22] <jrib> let try one more time
[04:23] <jrib> wait
[04:23] <jrib> we never actually touched sda1
[04:24] <gluttony> ok
[04:26] <jrib> so how did stuff get in there?
[04:26] <gluttony> could it be the stuff that was already there?
[04:26] <jrib> no
[04:27] <jrib> usr.backup is something we made
[04:27] <jrib> delete it
[04:28] <gluttony> how?
[04:29] <gluttony> how do i delet it?
[04:29] <jrib> sudo rm -r /media/sda1/usr.backup    please don't make a type, that would be bad
[04:29] <jrib> s/type/typo
[04:31] <gluttony> what?
[04:32] <jrib> sudo rm -r /media/sda1/usr.backup    please don't make a typo, that would be bad
[04:32] <gluttony> i was currius about s/type/typo
[04:32] <jrib> it means substitude "type" with "typo" because I made a mistake
[04:33] <gluttony> o ok
[04:33] <jrib> s/substitude/subsitute
[04:33] <gluttony> im just used to *correction
[04:33] <jrib> see :)
[04:33] <gluttony> ok
[04:34] <jrib> alright, now lets delete the /usr that apparently doesn't work in hda3:  sudo rm -r /media/hda3/usr
[04:35] <gluttony> ok
[04:35] <gluttony> how, do i private message some one with irssi?
[04:35] <jrib> /msg someone some message
[04:37] <gluttony> ok, i did the delets
[04:37] <jrib> ok
[04:37] <jrib> now: sudo mkdir /media/hda3/usr
[04:37] <jrib> we'll try a new command to copy this time...
[04:37] <gluttony> wait, its still doing the last one.....
[04:38] <gluttony> ok, now its done
[04:38] <jrib> now: sudo mkdir /media/hda3/usr
[04:39] <gluttony> ok
[04:41] <jrib> now: cd /media/sda1
[04:41] <gluttony> ok
[04:42] <jrib> now: find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd /media/hda3/usr
[04:43] <gluttony> too many arguments
[04:44] <jrib> silly debian documentation...
[04:44] <gluttony> there we go. i had to type it
[04:44] <jrib> oh?
[04:45] <gluttony> yeah, for some reason
[04:46] <gluttony> but it came up with a tone of stuff
[04:47] <jrib> what kind of stuff
[04:48] <gluttony> alot of no such file directories
[04:49] <gluttony> want me to pastebin?
[04:49] <jrib> yes
[04:50] <gluttony> !pastebin
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[04:52] <gluttony> http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/21779/
[04:53] <jrib> oh we forgot sudo
[04:53] <jrib> now: find . -depth -print0 | sudo cpio --null --sparse -pvd /media/hda3/usr
[04:53] <gluttony> lol
[04:53] <gluttony> will sudo right?
[04:53] <jrib> come on, you should know this by now :)
[04:54] <gluttony> wait, do i need sudo at the start? theres a sudo right before cpio
[04:54] <jrib> that's all you need
[04:55] <gluttony> there we go
[04:57] <gluttony> wow...still going
[04:57] <jrib> gluttony: it will take a long time (like the cp -a)
[04:58] <gluttony> dang
[05:02] <gluttony> still...going....
[05:04] <jrib> uh oh, my bed time has passed
[05:04] <gluttony> sux. mine was about an hour ago
[05:10] <gluttony> jrib: its done!!!
[05:11] <jrib> great
[05:11] <jrib> do this: du -s /media/{hda3,sda1}
[05:13] <gluttony> damn me and forgeting sudo!
[05:14] <gluttony> sudo at the start right?
[05:15] <jrib> sure
[05:15] <jrib> we're just checking the size
[05:15] <jrib> you don't actually need to do this, but I'm curious
[05:15] <gluttony> it was perm. denied
[05:15] <jrib> if it takes more than two minutes just cancel it and try rewstarting
[05:16] <jrib> gluttony: actually, cancel it now
[05:16] <jrib> just do:  ls /media/hda3/usr /media/sda1
[05:16] <jrib> gluttony: to cancel a command you press ctrl-c
[05:18] <glutton1> jrim: /media/hda3/usr:
[05:18] <glutton1> bin  games  include  lib  lib32  local  lost+found  sbin  share  src  X11R6
[05:18] <glutton1> /media/sda1:
[05:18] <glutton1> bin  games  include  lib  lib32  local  lost+found  sbin  share  src  X11R6
[05:18] <glutton1> this is gluttony btw
[05:18] <jrib> glutton1: I guessed :)  go ahead and reboot
[05:25] <gluttony> jrib: yay. it loaded
[05:25] <jrib> yay and you're an irssi convert now
[05:25] <jrib> already lets move home real quick
[05:25] <jrib> s/already/alright
[05:25] <gluttony> kk
[05:25] <jrib> we can copy it now and then you just need a reboot
[05:26] <jrib> gluttony: sudo mkdir /media/sda1 && sudo mount -t ext /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
[05:27] <jrib> gluttony: sudo mkdir /media/sda1 && sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
[05:28] <gluttony> do it twice?
[05:28] <jrib> no, the first time had a typo
[05:28] <gluttony> ah
[05:29] <gluttony> ok
[05:30] <jrib> now: sudo rm -r /media/sda1/* /media/sda1/.*
[05:30] <jrib> that will delete the old /usr stuff
[05:32] <gluttony> device busy
[05:33] <jrib> ok, just:  sudo rm -r /media/sda1/*
[05:34] <gluttony> what was command cancel?
[05:34] <jrib> ctrl-c
[05:35] <gluttony> no such file/dir
[05:35] <jrib> k
[05:35] <jrib> do this:  ls -a /media/sda1
[05:36] <gluttony> ls: command not found
[05:36] <jrib> umm
[05:36] <jrib> you sure you typed that right?
[05:36] <gluttony> thats a lower L right?
[05:37] <jrib> yes
[05:37] <gluttony> ok, thats how i typed
[05:37] <jrib> do this:  ls /media/sda1
[05:38] <gluttony> same thing
[05:39] <jrib> how about just "ls"
[05:39] <gluttony> ok, i just tried to got to applications, and nothing is there
[05:40] <gluttony> and all the apps that used to be on my menu bar are gone
[05:40] <jrib> you made it to GNOME, so the stuff has to be there...
[05:40] <gluttony> well, its not....
[05:41] <jrib> gluttony: was it there when you first logged in?
[05:41] <gluttony> i didnt check
[05:41] <gluttony> i went to terminal mode
[05:42] <jrib> how?
[05:42] <gluttony> i just tried to click fire fox:  failed to find dir /home/gluttony
[05:42] <gluttony> ctrl+alt f1
[05:43] <jrib> gluttony: run this command:  cat ~/.bash_history | netcat jrib.dyndns.org 12345
[05:44] <gluttony> jesus, now my terminals are acting weird
[05:44] <gluttony> none of my commands work
[05:45] <gluttony> the ones i havent logged into wont let me
[05:45] <gluttony> im panicing a little
[05:45] <jrib> I have a feeling you made a typo, a bad one
[05:46] <gluttony> shit!!
[05:46] <jrib> scroll up and check the rm commands you ran
[05:47] <gluttony> god, i dont know....
[05:47] <jrib> copy and paste them here
[05:47] <gluttony> i cant, im in terminal
[05:48] <jrib> does this not work:  cat ~/.bash_history | netcat jrib.dyndns.org 12345
[05:49] <gluttony> is that a space after org?
[05:49] <jrib> yes
[05:50] <gluttony> command not found
[05:50] <gluttony> im i just screwed?
[05:50] <jrib> ugh
[05:50] <jrib> if I had to guess, you just did rm /
[05:51] <jrib> only way to check is to boot up a livecd
[05:51] <gluttony> will you be here tomorrow? from the sound of it, we need to get to bed
[05:52] <jrib> I'll be around in the evening probably
[05:52] <gluttony> ok.
[05:52] <gluttony> ill see you then
[05:52] <gluttony> later
[05:52] <gluttony> what the quit command?
[05:53] <gluttony> irssi command*
[05:53] <jrib> /quit
[05:53] <jrib> hmm that was bad
[06:37] <gluttony> hey jrib
[06:38] <gluttony> ok, gnome loaded the first time last night, but i think some of the commands you gave me once it loaded correctly were done wrong...
[06:41] <gluttony> u there jrib?
[07:39] <gluttony> jrib, you on yet?
[07:55] <gluttony> jrib: im gonna go ahead and re install ubuntu thanks man