On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 05:26:23PM -0600, Vidiot wrote:
: Because the RH6.1 installation blindly went out and reset all of the
: hard disk partition tables, I've lost years worth of work.
Backups anyone? If you were storing "years worth of work", you might have
taken your data and backed it up on tape or burnt it to CD. Jaz? Zip?
Before doing ANY OS upgrade, I take my vital data and burn it to a CD.
: Yes, there is a note on the left that says the Linux data will be lost.
: The LINUX data, not MY data. Instead of listing all of the Linux partitions
: that it found and asking which ones it can remove, and/or, which ones it
: can use but leave the partitions the same, it blindly destroys.
The installer DOES note that it will completely repartition your drives,
thus killing whatever was already there. Shame on you for not using the
"Custom" option, which lets you choose what to do with your drives.
: Right now I am extremely unhappy with what RedHat's installation did to me.
s/RedHat's installation/I/;
: Where is FDISK when you need it?
In a VC. I hate disk druid. I boot from CD, start up in "text" mode, and
when it gets to the point that it launches disk druid, I back up one step,
flip to another VC, and fdisk /tmp/(sda|hda|whatever). After that, I
reboot and start up again, and only use disk druid to set the mount
points.
: BTW, before someone says, where are your tape backups... the Exabyte
: drive died. So, I used the available space on the other drive to backup
: the system, foolishing thinking that the drive would be left alone.
Fine, the tape drive died. You still have the last backup, right?
Presumably the drive isn't ancient, so either send it in for repair, or
get a new one under the terms of your warranty.
No CD-R there? Don't trust backups to another drive. If your drive
controller flakes out causing it to corrupt your disks, your backup
is fried along with your "production" data, now isn't it?
Sorry you lost your data, but honestly, it was your own fault for:
1) Not reading and fully comprehending the messages displayed during
installation.
2) Not backing up what I perceive (based on your tone and level of po'd-ness)
to be critical data.
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