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

[Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

that is why I still have everything!  :-)

mike


phrostie wrote:

> 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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