Hello Chris,

Saturday, Saturday, August 28, 1999, you wrote:


CLM> Hi,

CLM> I just wanted to mention that I also had the new GUI disk partition thing
CLM> completely hose my partition table.  I have two IDE drives.  My second
CLM> drive had a SuSE install with a bunch of partitions, and one spare where I
CLM> figured I would just put the cooker root, then I could mount my homedir.

CLM> Anyway, the reason I'm able to report this problem rather than screwing
CLM> around re-installing my system is because I found a wonderful tool called
CLM> rescuept.  This great little thing let me manually rebuild my partition
CLM> table and get my SuSE back (along with all my MP3s and home directory!!)
thats the most interesting part.. where an one find this useful
tool....and can it be part of cooker...


CLM> All I did was boot with the latest hd image (with the cooker distribution
CLM> on another drive which thankfully didn't get hosed).  I chose expert mode,
CLM> no scsi.  When the partition tool came up, all I did was hit "done" because
CLM> I didn't want to do any partitioning (I already had my partitions setup,
CLM> thank you very much!)

CLM> Anway, I think I'll wait a few days before I try this again.  :)


CLM> Chris




Best regards,
 
tracer

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