Help with crash Fedora Core 4

[dan]

Thanks for the info. As I'm still a relative tin horn with Linux, What 
are the commands to do the
symbolic linking required if  /usr/tmp should be symbolically linked to 
/var/tmp?

Thanks

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 07:26:44PM -0600, dan wrote:
>  
>
>>Howdy,
>>I was installing Audacity  when I encountered a total lock-up failure. 
>>After reboot, the only thing that comes up is GNU GRUB
>>(grub>)  I tried to reinstall off of my original distro disks using the 
>>upgrade mode because I have gobs of files that I presently can not get 
>>to and I don't want to wipe the hard drive clean and start over loosing 
>>all my data. When I try to do the reinstall/upgrade I get an error 
>>message telling me that /usr/tmp is a directory and should be a symbolic 
>>link I should return it to the state of a symbolic link and restart the 
>>upgrade.
>>
>>Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated..
>>
>>    
>>
>Steve Ringwald has a useful approach but I would do all this using
>linux rescue and in his solution he assumes that his boot partition
>is on its own partition. We have no evidence that is true on your
>system so take note of that is trying to do what he suggests.
>
>But as too your original question /usr/tmp should be symbolically
>linked to /var/tmp.
>  
>

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