Re: [vox-tech] AAARRRGGGHHHH! (Translation: Linux got hosed)
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Re: [vox-tech] AAARRRGGGHHHH! (Translation: Linux got hosed)
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> mark, i've never installed mandrake, however with debian, you are asked which
> partitions to mount, and debian will NOT touch any partition that you don't
> mount. so if you don't want /home == /dev/hdawhatever touched, then don't
> mount it. as long as you skip actual partitioning, whatever partitions you
> don't mount /should/ be left alone.
A problem with that is... I'm not sure if that partition is big enough
to hold the temporary /usr and /usr/local that'll be installed.
> now that's debian, of course. if mandrake doesn't do this, then perhaps you
> should give debian a try.
That doesn't solve the problem at hand, though :P I'd like to get the
original system back.
> if you're unsure about mandrake's behavior, get a spare hard drive and back
> up the partitions.
Time to get a new hard drive... How big of a drive should I get? How
much should I spend?
> don't you have DSL? you can leave stuff temporarily on my machine, if you
> want to backup and don't have a spare hard drive laying around.
Too much data... Thanks, tho!
-Mark
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