On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:03, David Guntner wrote: > James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > Just an oddball thought. What if you boot from disk 1 and then don't > > mount the partitions. IF (and it should be ) diskdrake is there, then > > you will have no problem with the partitions being mounted. > > By "disk 1," are you referring to CD number 1? If so, are you saying that > you can boot from it in a way which *doesn't* start the installer? :-)
He is suggesting that you can boot from Install CD #1, hit the function key for more options (F1?) and then type "rescue<cr>" to boot into rescue mode. From here you should be able to run fdisk to repartition the disk, mount/umount filesystems or (hint) have catastrophic accidents that result in staggering amounts of lost data. My personal favorite for this type of thing is LNX-BBC burned onto a small, business card sized CD that I carry around in my bag of tricks. The installation CDs are way too large and heavy to tote everywhere. Good luck, and backup important data first. Seth
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