Harddrives, Partitions and Late Nights
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I haven't used Linux for 2 years. I've been using FreeBSD and OpenBSD for my UNIX leasures. Last night I read about Progeny's (a linux distro company) GUI installer for Debian (the Linux distro I used to run). So, I was curious of how it works. I have a junk partition lying on a SCSI drive of mine for these "experiments". I downloaded the iso, burned it onto a CD-RW, and booted up on it. After hardware detection screens and all the usual boring stuff, I get to the file system editor - all GUI! Neato I thought. Just one small mistake - the currently existing partitions were not marked with their current file systems. A small mistake on Progenys part - a fan seeking planet of shit on my part. The junk partition I have is a UFS/FFS FreeBSD partition. Since I couldn't see the filesystem info, my tired brain came up with "Aah, the junk partition is on the IDE drive". Note that I did mention SCSI above. I found a 8 gig partition on the IDE drive, and I thought "This is it, I'm sure" - Oh how little did I know/remember. I removed it, cut it up in smaller partitions (/, /usr, /tmp, /home). Did an ext2/swap format of the partitions, installed Debian using the installer. Semi-bored I concluded that the installer does indeed work. Ok, mission accomplished - time to reboot into windows. I select Windows XP in my boot manager, and hit enter. Then I get the message \Windows\System32\SomeReallyImportant.DLL missing. WTF? I reboot and chose Windows 2000 in the boot manager instead. Guess what? E: does no longer exist. I had successfully saved my junk partition on my first SCSI drive and replaced my precious winxp partition on my IDE drive with Linux garbage. Joy joy joy, happy happy joy joy! Lessons learned:
- Do NOT assume anything when faced with unlabeled partitions
- Do NOT do any partitioning/formatting while tired
- Do NOT install Linux again
Frustration!
-- Master, I'm so glad to feel your presence. But you don't seem to share my impatience. I relied upon you to break the silence. I cannot understand your reluctance. Master, I feel so warm and I'm so happy, oh master. Give me some more of the warm little beasts I'm so fond of.
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I haven't used Linux for 2 years. I've been using FreeBSD and OpenBSD for my UNIX leasures. Last night I read about Progeny's (a linux distro company) GUI installer for Debian (the Linux distro I used to run). So, I was curious of how it works. I have a junk partition lying on a SCSI drive of mine for these "experiments". I downloaded the iso, burned it onto a CD-RW, and booted up on it. After hardware detection screens and all the usual boring stuff, I get to the file system editor - all GUI! Neato I thought. Just one small mistake - the currently existing partitions were not marked with their current file systems. A small mistake on Progenys part - a fan seeking planet of shit on my part. The junk partition I have is a UFS/FFS FreeBSD partition. Since I couldn't see the filesystem info, my tired brain came up with "Aah, the junk partition is on the IDE drive". Note that I did mention SCSI above. I found a 8 gig partition on the IDE drive, and I thought "This is it, I'm sure" - Oh how little did I know/remember. I removed it, cut it up in smaller partitions (/, /usr, /tmp, /home). Did an ext2/swap format of the partitions, installed Debian using the installer. Semi-bored I concluded that the installer does indeed work. Ok, mission accomplished - time to reboot into windows. I select Windows XP in my boot manager, and hit enter. Then I get the message \Windows\System32\SomeReallyImportant.DLL missing. WTF? I reboot and chose Windows 2000 in the boot manager instead. Guess what? E: does no longer exist. I had successfully saved my junk partition on my first SCSI drive and replaced my precious winxp partition on my IDE drive with Linux garbage. Joy joy joy, happy happy joy joy! Lessons learned:
- Do NOT assume anything when faced with unlabeled partitions
- Do NOT do any partitioning/formatting while tired
- Do NOT install Linux again
Frustration!
-- Master, I'm so glad to feel your presence. But you don't seem to share my impatience. I relied upon you to break the silence. I cannot understand your reluctance. Master, I feel so warm and I'm so happy, oh master. Give me some more of the warm little beasts I'm so fond of.
I feel your pain. For my test setup I have several drives (8) all in cradles and I clearly label each in big 1/2 inch letters. I can completely remove the drives and only destroy one at a time. This works at least some of the time:) "." Aristotle
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I haven't used Linux for 2 years. I've been using FreeBSD and OpenBSD for my UNIX leasures. Last night I read about Progeny's (a linux distro company) GUI installer for Debian (the Linux distro I used to run). So, I was curious of how it works. I have a junk partition lying on a SCSI drive of mine for these "experiments". I downloaded the iso, burned it onto a CD-RW, and booted up on it. After hardware detection screens and all the usual boring stuff, I get to the file system editor - all GUI! Neato I thought. Just one small mistake - the currently existing partitions were not marked with their current file systems. A small mistake on Progenys part - a fan seeking planet of shit on my part. The junk partition I have is a UFS/FFS FreeBSD partition. Since I couldn't see the filesystem info, my tired brain came up with "Aah, the junk partition is on the IDE drive". Note that I did mention SCSI above. I found a 8 gig partition on the IDE drive, and I thought "This is it, I'm sure" - Oh how little did I know/remember. I removed it, cut it up in smaller partitions (/, /usr, /tmp, /home). Did an ext2/swap format of the partitions, installed Debian using the installer. Semi-bored I concluded that the installer does indeed work. Ok, mission accomplished - time to reboot into windows. I select Windows XP in my boot manager, and hit enter. Then I get the message \Windows\System32\SomeReallyImportant.DLL missing. WTF? I reboot and chose Windows 2000 in the boot manager instead. Guess what? E: does no longer exist. I had successfully saved my junk partition on my first SCSI drive and replaced my precious winxp partition on my IDE drive with Linux garbage. Joy joy joy, happy happy joy joy! Lessons learned:
- Do NOT assume anything when faced with unlabeled partitions
- Do NOT do any partitioning/formatting while tired
- Do NOT install Linux again
Frustration!
-- Master, I'm so glad to feel your presence. But you don't seem to share my impatience. I relied upon you to break the silence. I cannot understand your reluctance. Master, I feel so warm and I'm so happy, oh master. Give me some more of the warm little beasts I'm so fond of.