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Neptun III, Installation-Guide IBM ThinkPads Version 5.1, 8/10/2003
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Î All Neptun III laptop - owners will be informed about updates for their Neptun laptop
via the Message Tree of the Informatikdienste ETH Zurich. Your address has been
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9 Reinstalling one system only
Reinstalling one system only, e.g. if one operation system has become corrupt:
1. Start your laptop.
2. Press F12 to enter the boot menu.
3. Insert the Neptun-3-DVD.
4. Choose CD-ROM drive to boot from.
5. In the main menu choose Step-by-Step-Installation and press ENTER.
6. Choose your keyboard.
7. Enter the menu Disk Partitioning, choose OK and press ENTER.
8. Now you can choose which operating system you want to reinstall. Choose the
corresponding line and ENTER. Continue:
9.1 Linux
Do only reinstall the system partition, not the HOME partition of Linux; otherwise you will
lose all your personal data on this partition.
Reinstalling the system will delete all former user accounts. If you only restored the root
partition and thereafter recreated all user accounts in the same order as you originally
created them, your data will be as it was before the reinstallation.
1. Install the Debian Linux Root partition, and the GRUB Boot loader. The hibernation
partition doesn't need to be reinstalled; it serves the system as data suspension space
for the sleep mode.
Î Do not overwrite the HOME partition where your data is located, otherwise you will
lose it.
2. After the installation, choose Back to Main Menu and there Exit Installer.
3. When you are on the screen neptun3 login: press ctrl-alt-delete to
reboot and eject the DVD by pressing the button on the DVD-drive.
4. Thereafter, choose Debian/GNU Linux from the list of installed system and press
ENTER-Taste.
5. Linux boots and enters the configuration procedure as described in the Default
Installation section.
Î Remark for advanced Linux users: Before reinstalling your system, you can try to fix the
existing Linux system by booting into the single user mode. Do so by switching on your
laptop and choosing Debian/GNU Linux recovery from the system selection
screen.
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