On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:03:48PM -0700, Richard E Miles wrote: > > this is a critical system that i was putting alot of things on.. i haven't > > done anything else to the box after my mistake.. > I believe you've lost your system. You will have to reinstall. Probably true. However, if you have /home as a separate partition, and kept your critical things there, you should be able to choose to not reformat that partition during the install, and end up without losing your important stuff. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 75 degrees Fahrenheit.