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[Tim Gales]

Jon Baer writes:

> redhat hell i think ... i have no idea but my /initrd folder 
> suddenly disappeared and apparently this is taboo on RH9 ... 
> it causes a kernel panic and i could not boot, so i went over 
> to XP and used LTOOLS to simply create this empty directory 
> and now ... all i have left is
> 
> /proc
> /dev
> /tmp
> 
> am i screwed?  (considering my cd-rom cant seem to work), do 
> i have any alternatives?  i knew sticking with redhat was bad 
> news ... any advise
> *extremely* appreciated.
> 
> 

Firstly, let me say I am very hesitant to say 
anything here.

But since you said you would like to hear 
*any* advice....

If I understand your situation, it seems that 
the file system is still intact but you have 
managed to clobber all the device drivers
(or at least the CD driver)

If you could boot from a floppy disk,
it might turn out that it would 
put back some device drivers.

Once you have sort of manually bootstrapped 
your system up, you could try and take it from 
there ...


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