| Kilos | morning superfly inetpro nuvolari and everyone else | 04:49 |
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| inetpro | Kilos: good morning | 07:45 |
| inetpro | Kilos: are you surviving on this last day of 2010? | 07:46 |
| Kilos | lo pro | 07:57 |
| Kilos | eish | 07:57 |
| Kilos | lo inetpro | 07:57 |
| Kilos | lol. just. Debs and I met tonight 25 years ago | 07:59 |
| Kilos | but i be fighting my 80g drive the mbr is corrupt or gone? | 07:59 |
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| Kilos | anyone here can help me to install .tar or .rpm files please | 11:35 |
| Kilos | i found a way to rewrite my mbr but cant find the files with cli so i can install them | 11:35 |
| Kilos | or repair | 11:36 |
| Kilos | i have them in downloads and on desktop but cant get sudo to find them | 11:36 |
| Kilos | this is the command i used | 11:37 |
| Kilos | sudo alien package_file.rpm | 11:37 |
| Kilos | sudo alien seatoolsenterprise.i386.rpm | 11:38 |
| Kilos | what did i leavge out | 11:38 |
| Kilos | leave | 11:38 |
| superfly | Kilos: firstly, why are you trying to install .tar or .rpm files? | 11:39 |
| Kilos | because that sight doesnt have them in .deb superfly | 11:39 |
| Kilos | site | 11:39 |
| superfly | Kilos: which site is that? | 11:39 |
| Kilos | sec i find it | 11:39 |
| Kilos | http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-GB&name=SeaTools:_Enterprise_Edition&vgnextoid=58d500bc350ce010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD | 11:40 |
| Kilos | whew thats a long one hey | 11:40 |
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| superfly | why do you need that? | 11:42 |
| Kilos | my harddrives mbr has crashed | 11:42 |
| superfly | so what does that tool have to do with it? | 11:43 |
| Kilos | it is supposed to be able to repair or reinstall mbr | 11:49 |
| Tonberry | how on earth did you break an mbr? | 11:50 |
| Kilos | sorry i took so long i dont have any indicators working here on 9.04 | 11:50 |
| Kilos | Tonberry, not me | 11:50 |
| Kilos | did it all on its own | 11:50 |
| Kilos | but googling finds lotsa peeps had same probs | 11:51 |
| Tonberry | and now grub won't start? | 11:51 |
| Kilos | yip | 11:51 |
| Kilos | been trying for 4 days now | 11:52 |
| Kilos | or more. i forget | 11:52 |
| Tonberry | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows | 11:53 |
| Kilos | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RPM/AlienHowto | 11:54 |
| Tonberry | try that method for installing a grub mbr | 11:54 |
| Kilos | i will look . this is what i found but i dunno where to find the files | 11:54 |
| Kilos | ok ty will do that now. see ya all later | 11:54 |
| Kilos | hold thumbs for me please | 11:55 |
| Tonberry | a random seagate tool is very unlikely to be able to fix grub... | 11:55 |
| Kilos | that was part of the boast | 11:55 |
| superfly | Kilos: don't use random tools, use the Ubuntu tools | 11:55 |
| Kilos | ok will do | 11:56 |
| superfly | Kilos: if your horse is sick, are you going to get a doctor or a vet to look at him? | 11:57 |
| Kilos | hehe | 11:57 |
| Kilos | i be the vet | 11:58 |
| superfly | Kilos: right, so the same with your boot sector, are you going to get some Seagate tool to fix grub, or are you going to get grub to fix itself? | 11:58 |
| Kilos | i have google lots superfly and some of the info was from ubuntu but it didnt work here because i make mistakes in cli i suppose | 11:59 |
| Kilos | its the mbr not grub | 12:00 |
| Kilos | cant boot with anything ebvn dos stiffies | 12:00 |
| Kilos | even | 12:00 |
| Kilos | and i didnt have windows near here before the crash | 12:01 |
| Kilos | was just starting to enjoy maverick | 12:01 |
| superfly | Kilos: the MBR is the Master Boot Record, which lives in the first sector of your hard drive. if you can't boot with a stiffy, that's not your MBR | 12:01 |
| Kilos | oh sorry i can boot from them but not install dos even | 12:01 |
| superfly | can you boot of an Ubuntu CD? | 12:02 |
| Tonberry | are you certain the entire drive is not dead? | 12:02 |
| superfly | *off | 12:02 |
| superfly | Tonberry: yeah, that's what I suspect... the MBR doesn't die by itself, it's either all or nothing | 12:02 |
| Tonberry | or very very very very random kernel bug.... | 12:03 |
| Kilos | half the time it doesnt boot from the ubuntu cds | 12:12 |
| Kilos | says ubi.partman | 12:12 |
| Kilos | um | 12:12 |
| Kilos | cant find ubi.partman | 12:12 |
| Kilos | it has actually installed twice in the last few days but soon after updating crashed again | 12:13 |
| Tonberry | i vote hardware failure | 12:14 |
| Kilos | ubuntu actually gave a report once or twice that mbr was corrupt or missing | 12:14 |
| Kilos | but i will keep trying | 12:14 |
| Kilos | ty for the help guys | 12:14 |
| superfly | Kilos: your hard drive is dead, you need a new one | 12:19 |
| Kilos | eish | 12:20 |
| Kilos | dont say that superfly its my newest one | 12:20 |
| Kilos | the one i am using now is much older | 12:20 |
| Tonberry | could also be the motherboard if booting from a live cd is a problem | 12:20 |
| Tonberry | or the dvd/cdrom drive | 12:21 |
| Kilos | cd | 12:21 |
| superfly | Kilos: when did you get it? | 12:21 |
| Kilos | 3 years ago | 12:22 |
| superfly | hrm, your warranty has probably already expired | 12:22 |
| Kilos | lol yeah | 12:22 |
| Kilos | maxtor give a 1 year warranty | 12:22 |
| superfly | ah, I think seagate or one of the others gives a 3 year warranty | 12:23 |
| Kilos | i keep trying guys. be good till im back ok?? | 12:24 |
| Kilos | thanks again for the help | 12:24 |
| drubin | Happy new year peoples. | 12:59 |
| drubin | bye | 12:59 |
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| Kilos | Maaz, coffee on | 20:09 |
| * Maaz washes some mugs | 20:09 | |
| superfly | evening Kilos | 20:09 |
| Kilos | hi superfly | 20:09 |
| Kilos | weird things here | 20:10 |
| Kilos | fixed mbr with windows 98 cd and then installed 98 | 20:10 |
| Kilos | then win me | 20:10 |
| Kilos | then xp | 20:10 |
| Kilos | then tried ubuntu | 20:10 |
| Kilos | eish | 20:10 |
| charlvn | sheesh, that's pretty hectic | 20:11 |
| Kilos | yip really weird | 20:11 |
| Kilos | it just refuses to accept any of my ubuntus | 20:12 |
| superfly | Kilos: how do you mean? | 20:12 |
| Kilos | ubuntu cds boot and then there lotsa errors when trying to install | 20:13 |
| Maaz | Coffee's ready for Kilos! | 20:13 |
| Kilos | 9.04 gets the furthest | 20:13 |
| Kilos | Maaz, dankie | 20:13 |
| Maaz | Groot plesier Kilos my vriend | 20:13 |
| superfly | Kilos: what errors? | 20:15 |
| Kilos | hard to member but lots | 20:15 |
| Kilos | um | 20:15 |
| Kilos | something with partman | 20:15 |
| Kilos | and lotsa other stuff like gdm not starting etc | 20:16 |
| superfly | Kilos: in order to solve your problem you need to know the first 5 (at least) error messages | 20:17 |
| Kilos | they flash past so fast i dont get to read them all superfly | 20:18 |
| Kilos | and i dunno how to slow the thing down so i can write them down | 20:20 |
| superfly | Kilos: I think there's an install log screen in the text-based installer, Ctrl+F10 | 20:23 |
| Kilos | at what stage do you go control +f12 | 20:28 |
| superfly | Kilos: any time, I think | 20:37 |
| Kilos | ok ty superfly i will try that | 20:38 |
| Kilos | fp | 22:00 |
| Kilos | happy new year to all of you | 22:00 |
| nuvimob | fp | 22:01 |
| nuvimob | ? | 22:01 |
| nuvimob | or did i not make it in time? :-P | 22:01 |
| superfly | weee! happy new year! | 22:02 |
| Kilos | lol | 22:03 |
| Kilos | happy happy you guys | 22:03 |
| Kilos | Maaz, happy new year | 22:07 |
| Maaz | Thanks Kilos my friend and all the best to you and family | 22:07 |
| Kilos | noght all . sleep tight | 22:08 |
| Kilos | night | 22:08 |
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