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mohtaw

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Registered: 2014-05-04

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uninstall while booting from the CD

i faced a freez while booting after installing gnome , i can't access the terminal any way , i can boot from the cd 
starting from this point can i uninstall gnome and reverse what was done before the last reboot

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: uninstall while booting from the CD

Yes.

Boot from the installation disc and chroot into your broken system.

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drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: uninstall while booting from the CD

...or "arch-chroot", for convenience!

WorMzy

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Re: uninstall while booting from the CD

Or don't chroot, and just use pacman's -r flag to point to your (mounted) root partition.

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mohtaw

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Registered: 2014-05-04

Posts: 7

Re: uninstall while booting from the CD

many thanks , i could remove the gnome now

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: uninstall while booting from the CD

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309