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Skriven 2006-09-25 15:34:16 av Alan Hess
Ärende: disaster with Linux
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I finally tried to install the Ubuntu you sent me to my empty second drive. 
Well, I told it to use that drive, then, at some point, after seeing the
install progress telling me it was installing Grub on my master drive!  I
couldn't do anything.  By the time it was done, not only did it mess up my eCS
1.2 boot partition with 243 meg of Grub, it also messed up the other 114 gig of
the master drive (though Linux said that was unformatted.)  

I couldn't boot to eCS from the 1.2 boot partition, or the 1.1 partition, or to
Win98SE from its boot partition.  My system and data were gone.  DFSEE author
Jan van Wilk wrote a dfsee script to try to undo the damage to the master drive
(I used the DFSEE boot CD to generate the files he needed to analyze), and it
restored the old partition table, but Linux apparently munged the files on the
114 gig, so I still couldn't boot.  My Fastback crash recovery disks wouldn't
boot, so I couldn't just repartition the drive and restore the backup (done
just before the install of Linux.)  I was really screwed.  Thank heaven, luck,
computer gods, whatever, I finally found another copy of the crash recover
diskettes.  They did boot, but didn't find the tape drive.  Oy!  I had to edit
the config.sys file to point to the driver for my current scsi card (had to
search the web for it, and use Linux to copy it to a floppy), and edit the
config file Fastback uses to find the tape drive.  I booted the eCS CD, and
formatted every partition on the master, then tried to restore from the tape. 
I entered the recovery command, and prayed.  Files started copying from tape to
disk.  When all files were restored (0 errors reported), I rebooted and prayed
even harder.  Success!  eCS 1.2 booted up, and everything seems to work.  I've
lost my eCS 1.1 and Win98SE boot partitions (the former doesn't really matter),
but at least I have 1.2 and all my data back.

While my friend was over trying to fix things up, he disconnected the master
drive, and I reinstalled Linux to the second drive (no chance of it messing
with my master drive this time.)  So, Ubuntu 5.10 remains on my slave drive, if
I ever have the nerve to try it again (I'm afraid it will mess with my master
drive again if I use it.  My computer literacy really isn't that good, and my
ability to concentrate is far worse.  I didn't even understand how to change
directories in Linux, let alone install Firefox plugins, which was my
attraction to Linux (more multimedia plugins than for OS/2-eCS, and, like eCS,
more secure by far than Win98SE.)

If anyone needs a hard drive utility with great author support (e-mail and
Yahoo group), that comes in Windows, OS/2, Linux, and Dos versions, check out
DFSEE at www.dfsee.com.  Jan was great trying to help me, though it didn't work
in the end. *adh*

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