uninstalling everything

line72 · Guest

I want to uninstall almost everything and start over, What do i need to keep ??

Guest · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 10:46 pm Post subject:

why dont you just startover....just fdisk

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

That would be a pretty long process for simply needing to uninstall some programs. I personally do not ahve the answer accept that most of the stuff you would be able to uninstall should be obvious to some degree.

Psychephylax · n00b Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 44 Location: Smithtown, NY

I agree. If you need to start from scratch. Just use fdisk. Then delete and re-create your partitions. You won't be saving much time by un-installing programs as most of the time is used to actually compile those programs.

Plus, reformatting usually allows you to set things up better since you probably made some mistakes in the past.
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Flake · Posted: Sat May 11, 2002 12:30 pm Post subject:

depends on how you got started. did you do a stage 1,2 or 3 install ??

just fdisk is a little crude !!

you could create a empty partition and copy al the /usr/portage/distfiles contents to it ( or to another pc connected !)

saves quite a bit of downloading