11-21-2010, 12:44 PM
update:
To answer the questions, there is around 90gb free on a 120gb disk. SMART status=verified.
Next:
I booted the MB from an external drive with SL installed. Actually I used the SL disk to install SL on the external drive so I could boot from it. Everything went fine and dandy. First I tried to verify the disk from the SL disk. No go. Something wrong cannot fix. Then i booted from the external drive and ran DU again. It found minor directory issues that it claimed to fix.
So i tried booting the MB again and it just sat there spinning and spinning and spinning. So i booted into single user mode and ran fsck. It found minor problems that were corrected. THEN I typed exit and thats when it kept giving me "crash report saved" lines over and over and over and over and over. So i assume that it was it was doing when it was sitting there spinning on the gray screen.
Then I rebooted from the external drive and just copied the user folder over in case I needed to wipe the drive. Now I am trying to reinstall SL from the CD. I'm thinking that maybe, a disk error caused SL to fail. Then from that point on I was trying to boot a disk with SL half installed...which of course failed.
Anyway. Sl is trying to install now. Its got "About 20 minutes" remaining.
If this fails again, I will wipe the drive. Before doing so, is there a better way to make sure I get all the user stuff off? I basically copied over the entire drive to the external (which surprisingly worked) Obviously its not going to copy EVERYTHING. but all I really need are the user files right?
So I can wipe the drive. Reinstall the System. Then copy over the user contents into the new user folder. Anything wrong with that line of thinking?
To answer the questions, there is around 90gb free on a 120gb disk. SMART status=verified.
Next:
I booted the MB from an external drive with SL installed. Actually I used the SL disk to install SL on the external drive so I could boot from it. Everything went fine and dandy. First I tried to verify the disk from the SL disk. No go. Something wrong cannot fix. Then i booted from the external drive and ran DU again. It found minor directory issues that it claimed to fix.
So i tried booting the MB again and it just sat there spinning and spinning and spinning. So i booted into single user mode and ran fsck. It found minor problems that were corrected. THEN I typed exit and thats when it kept giving me "crash report saved" lines over and over and over and over and over. So i assume that it was it was doing when it was sitting there spinning on the gray screen.
Then I rebooted from the external drive and just copied the user folder over in case I needed to wipe the drive. Now I am trying to reinstall SL from the CD. I'm thinking that maybe, a disk error caused SL to fail. Then from that point on I was trying to boot a disk with SL half installed...which of course failed.
Anyway. Sl is trying to install now. Its got "About 20 minutes" remaining.
If this fails again, I will wipe the drive. Before doing so, is there a better way to make sure I get all the user stuff off? I basically copied over the entire drive to the external (which surprisingly worked) Obviously its not going to copy EVERYTHING. but all I really need are the user files right?
So I can wipe the drive. Reinstall the System. Then copy over the user contents into the new user folder. Anything wrong with that line of thinking?