Re: [UUG/MLUG] WOOPS!

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Could someone provide me instructions to get off this list?

Thanks.

lw

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Scott Greathouse wrote:

> I just gave ARC's web server a lobotamy, or so it seems. I'll tell you
> the whole story, to educate the newbies (like me) and to entertain those
> who will easily see where I went wrong...
> All I wanted to do was upgrade KDE. So I used my Mandrake 5.3 CD, and
> tried upgrading from the command line. When I got to kdebase, it told me
> that I needed some Mandrake files to install it. The Mandrake files
> refused to be installed, even with "--force" so I decided it would be
> fine to just upgrade the whole thing, as I had done with my home system
> the night before. So I needed a DOS boot disk... a fellow employee
> generously offered me a Windows 98 rescue disk. Yes, this is where it
> gets interesting. The Windows 98 rescue disk examined the hard drive and
> noted that "Drive C:" was not a Windows partition. "Oh, well," it said,
> "I'm going to write a big old stupid Microsoft thing to it anyway!" and
> it proceded to do so. Then, when I tried to upgrade, the upgrade program
> said that there was no kernel on my root partition, so it just couldn't
> do an upgrade. I rebooted with a linux boot disk and the machine is
> running quite nicely without a brain (serving up webpages, running SSH
> and the whole 9-yards), but I would really like to recover the root
> partition. I would also like to know how to mount a directory on my MLUG
> account as an NFS drive so that I can "cp -a /home /nfsmount" thereby
> keeping all of the user's stuff intact (including the httpd). I could
> copy it all to a Novell machine pretty easily, but this would eliminate
> the ownership information and permissions. A good explanation of what,
> exactly, that Win98 rescue disk did to my poor machine might be
> interesting, too.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm just glad it isn't an
> emergency (since the server doesn't seem to know that anything is
> wrong).
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 
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> Scott Greathouse
> Research Coordinator
> Assessment Resource Center
> (573) 882-2963
> 
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