Woops, I deleted my Gentoo partition!

Man did I ever make a mistake. I went out to buy an 80 Gig usb 2.0 drive and and accidentally reformated my internal hard drive partition with Gentoo on it --- YOW!!.

The thing about USB devices under the 2.4.x kernel is that they mount as if they are a SCSI drive -- /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2.

well I wanted to format the drive using mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2 but I accidentally typedmkfs.ext3 /dev/hda2

WHY WHY WHY WHY HWY???????

I think I did it intentionally on some subliminal level. Afterall I was thinking of repartitioning my drive now that I had a big external drive to store stuff on. Also I noticed that I didn't optimize some of my software for Pentium 4.

Ok, Everything is fine I still have the Live CD -- lets see if I can install this thing in less time. 10 seconds later, I opened my laptop case only to find my Gentoo Live CD broken in half. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

OK OK -- calm down, you can just redownload it.

So I find a gentoo mirror and download the latest Live CD - only like 100 megs no prob.

Done.

Hmm, Maybe I should just download the Stage 3 Pentium 4 build it's only 130 meg and will save time.

Done.

boot live CD.

Run cfdisk

delete first 3 partitions and make 2 new ones.

Ok I like that.

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot/

swapon /dev/hda6

done.

Copy stage*3 to /mnt/gentoo/.

unbzip, untar.

done

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash source profile env-update

run kudzu to install network

dhcpcd eth0

done

emerge kernel-sources

done

cd /usr/src/linux

make menuconfig

make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install

emerge lilo

cp /etc/lilo.conf.example /etc/lilo.conf

nano -w /etc/lilo.conf

change root partion to /dev/hda2

save and exit

lilo; bootloader Gentoo*

restart computer

emerge -k kde-base

emerge -k kde-utils

ok I am just about back not just:

emerge world;

Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!