[aclug-L] Re: egaddds deeeeezaster :-\

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i don't suppose you have access to a second linux box?
you could mount that drive as an additional partition and
copy it that way.

if you don't you might find some one willing to act as a
surrogate until you get your new
system up.

i keep /home/ on a seperate partition for that reason


Michael Holmes wrote:
> 
> It all started at the last cpu show.  When we were trying to turn on the
> cdwriter.  What ended up happening, was 1) no mounting of the cdrom 2)
> not able to mount the windoz 95 directories (no driver found) 3) not
> able to mount floppies (same stuff)
> 
> This is why most of my email has the windoz signature, each time I
> started linux it got worse.  Last night I got unable to mount hda10
> unknown filesystem...kernal panic no root directory!!!  hda10 is my root
> directory!  checking with fdisk, and hda 10 is type 83 "linux native"
> same as it has always been.  So, I put the redhat 6.1 cd in and did
> upgrade.  NOT GOOD :-(  I HAVE A BIG HARD DRIVE, and have to use the
> western digital EZ loader.  Not liked by fdisk!  I have solved this by
> putting my lilo on a floppy.  Well the upgrade felt it was too good to
> boot by just a floppy, it over wrote hda1 boot sector (windoz) but it
> never finished, you'd get wd ezloader........booting c drive..
> LI{consistant beeping starts here and computer locks up} After digging
> my norton commander off of 5 1/4 floppy I rewrote my hda and recovered
> 'c' drive (hda1).  I am now up and active on windoz, but I have lost
> everything I had on linux  I managed to save my /home on hda6, and my
> swap on hda5 but, I lost hda8, 9, 10 which were the guts of my linux
> install.  I did save my address book on /home
> 
> Does anybody have a utility which I could read the linux drive, to pull
> my data and put it on cdrw, before I try again?   YUZ WUD BE ME HERO!!
> :-)  I really want to back up my home directory first.  I can use my
> rescue disk, or, while the install program is running, I have bash on
> [alt]F2, but it would not do many commands, so I feel it has a limited
> vocabulary, while in install mode.
> 
> I need help, and so does my cpu! :-)
> 
> MIKE

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