On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Rod May said:
RM>How to lose partitions with RH 6.1: a Mini-HOWTO
RM>
RM>Howdy All.
RM>
RM>Having not installed RH since 5.x and seeing 'Automatic Partitioning'
RM>as an option I mistakenly thought I'd trust it just a little.....
RM>Try it out, give some feedback, do my bit.
RM>Well I thought it must be well tested and safe, RH is a mature product.
RM>Maybe the fact that it was the DEFAULT it couldn't do that much damage.
RM>People can get it just by hitting return too many times too quickly etc etc
RM>Maybe it was the red wine.
RM>
RM>Even though it says 'all your linux _installations_ would be deleted'
RM>they didn't mean all linux partitions... just where your previous
RM>linux installations root partition was, it would work out the root
RM>partition possibly using the active bit in the partition table, or lilos
RM>pointers, or just the only primary partition of your first drive.
RM>Either way, I was sure if it was confused after finding multiple linux
RM>partitions, on something so important, it would prompt.. surely?.
RM>
RM>Not so.
<extremely painful history deleted>
As the Red Hat folks are very kind and patient people they probably won't do
this but I just cannot help myself. (Plz note that I have been in your
shoes, but not recently.... ~~~~~sigh!).
There is a book which comes with the boxed set which is called Installation
Guide and on this book it says "Read Me First!".
(I know... we *know* Linux so we don't need to read that book... right?)
We open the book and turn to the table of contents and on page "iv" we find
a section 4.7 entitled Automatic Partitioning. The table says it's on page
41 in the book.
(goodness we don't ever do this... why do it this time? <grin>)
Turn to page 41 where it says that the Automatic Partitioning screens will
only be seen if you are performing a workstation of server-class
installation.
(wait a minute are we doing an install or an upgrade? No matter let's read
on...)
Wow check that out... right there in the third paragraph it says, "If you do
*not* want to lose some or all of your data, you should either choose to
partition manually or choose a different installation class."
(hrrmmmm... reckon what that means? But wait, maybe the next paragraph
explains it in more detail....?)
Paragraph #4:
A workstation-class installation will remove data on all currently existing
Linux partitions.
(woops... I don't want that one! I'm doing an upgrade...)
Paragraph 5:
A server-class installation will remove data on all partitions of all hard
drives.
(hrrmmmm... what's that in paragraph 2?)
"...you can choose to continue with this installation, to partition
manually, or to use the *Back* button to go back and choose a different
installation method (see figure 4-6, Automatic Partitioning).
(Hey you, mouse unit, let's go back and try again shall we? Now where's that
"BACK" button again?)
Rod... I feel your pain... after all, all mail is stored in ~ isn't it?
(Guess what I did the 1st time! <grin>)
We *WERE* warned... it's in the book! (fortunately I did not lose the
corporate database, just my entire Inbox). ~~~~~~~sigh!
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