[aclug-L] Re: LInux sucks

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

good idea

"James G." wrote:
> 
> What I think this whole thing was (which happened to me once) is that the
> partition table became corrupt. I had my table go bad by doing stupid things
> with WINE (Wine is Not an Emulator).
> My linux partitions were gone when a ran FDISK and listed out the table. I
> fixed the problem by recreating the start and stop cylinders exactly as before
> (from a previous saved print out of FDISK).  When I rebooted, ALL my data was
> 100% intact and everything was like it was before.
> 
> IT IS IMPORTANT TO PRINT OUT YOUR PARTITION TABLE FROM FDISK OUTPUT.
> Safeguard this little piece of paper in case of emergencies. Use Toms Root
> Boot Floppy to fix the table with fdisk.
> 
> James G.
> 
> "Michael A. Holmes" wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:   John Goerzen [SMTP:jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent:   Friday, April 07, 2000 8:40 AM
> > To:     discussion@xxxxxxxxx
> > Cc:     'aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject:        [aclug-L] Re: LInux sucks
> >
> > "Michael A. Holmes" <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > After restoring track 0 of the hard drive, with the western digital ez
> > > drive, I now have linux up and sorta running. My home directory is
> > trashed,
> >
> > Don't use ezdrive :-(
> >
> 
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