At 11:28 AM 4/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
>WARNING WARNING WARNING
>
>
>Be careful! As I recall from the infamous 'vidiot -redhat 6.2 sucks
because it
>deleted all my partitions' thread or what ever it started as the consensus
was
>that you can do a install an not wipe out the existing partition info by
using
>expert mode. The install will wipe out all partition info without asking you
>the 'ol are you sure, are you REALLY sure type of deal. Come to think of
it it
>might have been 6.1. Anyway make sure you have working backups and a
method of
>restoring the data.
>
>Personally, I would plan to just restore mine from the backup you are surely
>going to do just before the reinstall.
>
>Bret
>
That was doing a server install that caused problems, if I remember
right. Doing a workstation install didn't have that problem...
In any case, backups are important. Especially if you mark the
wrong partition to be formatted...
Mikkel
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