If, like me, don't want to keep on installing o/s such as *cough* windows
every time, then getting another hard drive or 2 is ideal. a little
expensive I know.....but a price to pay for retaining data.
Prashant.
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From: "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Oxygen upgrade difficulties
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> This might sound like "nuts" but are these people backing up their data
when
> installing the upgrade over their original?
>
> Just curious...lmao already read some posts were people actually think
"beta"
> means "final release" for some reason....lol.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > This afternoon, I received a disc containing the 7.0 Beta (Oxygen) from
> > CheapBytes. The time stamp on the gi_cdrom.img is 21 Dec 99 20:32. The
> > boot.cat time stamp is 22 Dec 99 16:05.
> >
> > When trying to perform an upgrade from 6.1 (Helios), it reports an
> > inability to read the partition table on the hard disk. The following
> > dialog states that /dev/hda2 is not a valid root partition and that I
> > should select another. I am then informed there is no valid root
> > partition, and it sends me back to the inability to read partition table
> > dialog. This occurs both in Custom and Expert modes.
> >
> > My partition table is attached as is the dmesg output and the relevant
> > messages from the third VC.
> >
> > /dev/hda2 is indeed not a root partition, it mounts as /boot (as many
> > people who must dual boot have done due to BIOS limitations). But, I am
> > not being given the option of selecting the correct partition.
> >
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