FX Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 Wanted to mount my windows partition on my gaming machine. Wasn't really sure on how to do that with Ubuntu. So I went into #Ubuntu and asked a couple of questions and I was finally able to mount my /c drive. Well that really wasn't the spot I was looking for. SO before I umounted it I just happen to run rm -rf /c because that wasn't the mout point I wanted and I wanted to get rid of that mount point. I wanted /windows so I could go everywhere on that partition. Key words in this paragraph "SO before I umounted it I just happen to run rm -rf /c because that wasn't the mout point I wanted". Anyone guess what happen? FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 me me me, pick me! Have one on the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a13x Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 That's nasty ..... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 OUCHIE!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 "rm -rf /c" Lemme think... - "rm"= remove - "-r" = recursively (all directories recursive) - "-f" = ?? - "/c" = your Windoze C partition?? Am I correct in saying you erased everything from your C drive? My CLI knowledge is rusty ATM. Even if so, I still don't understand your explanation: ...because that wasn't the mount point I wanted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 "-f" = force, it doesn't ask you if you want to delete it before it deletes it. none of this, "are you sure??" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 Oh yeah... now I remember. That's bad... have a beer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 oooouchies! iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted October 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 I'm still laughing about it. FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb2 Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 One wonders if this was a freudian thing (you know when the sub conscious takes over!). you see, the inner self has wanted to get rid of windows for years and now its done it. the sub concious mind is at least 10 times stronger than the conscious (according to my private brain care specialist lol) after all, the sub-conscious is trusted so much, it is given control of your heart beat and your breathing !! and your sub-conscious wants to rid your life of windows once and for all !!! take advice from my analyst always trust your sub-conscious roflmao. that advice cost me $20,000 ha ha ha lol lol lol hey who is that in that white coat, they look friendly .......................................................... reb2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted October 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 Well reb2 you might be right, heres "the rest of the story....." I tried twice to install XP Pro. Had all the updates installed. Then installed AVG anti-virus. Well that hosed up and I couldn't get any updates installed. So I uninstalled it. Next was install Partition Magic 8 and make room for linux. Well I made the changes I wanted in the program and rebooted. Part way through the operation on boot PM 8 hosed up and I wasn't able to boot anymore. So re-install again. This time just did the updates. Installed PM8 and convert from NTFS to Fat32 that went fine. Then tried again to make room for linux. I applied the changes and reboot again for PM 8 to do its thing. Guess what? It hose up again and I couldn't boot up the pc AGAIN!!!! So my next logical answer was throw in the Ubutnu CD format the WHOLE PC to Linux. Not installing XP at all. So thats where I'm at now. Only one pc left in the house running dual boot with XP/Linux. Someday in the future I may build another gaming pc so I can race Nascar and other games that don't work well in Linux. At least now I know when the kids go on any pc in the house I don't have to worry about viruses and crap. The other pc that still dual boots never gets into XP. So there you have it. Windows is now gone forever on that pc. To be honest it is a little heartbreaking because I use to and still do really enjoy racing. :sad: :sad: FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 buy a PS2 B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 (edited) I have a simmilar problem. due to some tinkering and a disasterous error on the windows side the windows is gone since mid may. I can not install another windows on this box anymore. format washed all the winerror pain away, but I desperately want to play some games.. so now my top priority is to get a new pc and shape it into a windows based game console. don't have the money though :( p.s. transgaming (cedega) just isn't there yet Edited October 24, 2004 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted October 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 Arthur I'm not a big fan of PS2 or other console gaming equipment. Thanks for the suggestion though. FX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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