On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:11:20AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Leo Spalteholz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Quoting Christoph Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Leo, > > > > > > > Is there a way to get this on a disk or something? I dont have any > > > > system up right now.. > > > > > > http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ > > > > > > You can boot from boot-floppy, your debian-CD, ... > > > Or the Knoppix cd!! That thing dominates! I just booted from that, got a > > nice KDE3 desktop, internet works to download gpart.. Can even listen to a > > few tunes while my hard drive gets (hopefully) unf*cked. > > > > Much nicer than any boot floppy. > > With the possible exception that the Knoppix disk won't fit in the > sleeve of your Palm Pilot like the LNX-BBC does. > > That said, Knoppix is indeed cool. > > > For the original poster or anyone else reading: this is a damned good > reason to keep track of your original partition table. > > I've written a script which does this, as well as extracting other > useful system information. Park the output on a printout, floppy, or > your website (well away from the partition you're planning to damage). > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/system-info > > The 'si' package is similar, though it doesn't do a good job of > capturing partition information, IMO. > > Peace.
Well all the rescue disks didn't help any. Gpart scanned for 4 hours and spit out a bunch of read errors along the way then came up with no partitions at all. Partition Magic was confused, same with Spin Rite. And so I checked it with the ibm drive fitness test and guess what? Its completely toast. Couldn't even get past the first sector. I have no idea how I managed to trigger such massive corruption but apparently I did somehow. No more ibm for me. Thats the second one I've had to send back in a year. GRRRR.. I should have joined that lawsuit :) Cheers, Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
