Edward Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I said that I cannot imagine a case where I would want all partitions
on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install. Despite your
claims, I still would never want all partitions on all disk drives to be
removed during an OS install. Not
Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Douglas Alan wrote:
No it wouldn't. It is never reasonable to destroy large amounts of
data without being quite sure that that is what the user wants.
If that were true, then 'rm -i' would be default behavior, and the
'-f' option would
Emmanuel Seyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It could start by not zeroing partitions on disk drives uninvolved in
the OS installation, since there is no reason for it to do that.
This is the part where I don't follow you. If partitions have not
been created, how is the kickstart program
Ward William E DLDN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug, I've read these messages and I've come to a conclusion: You are
one of those people who screws up, and then says I'm the innocent
victim! It's somebody else's fault!
I don't claim to be any sort of innocent victim -- I have merely
noticed
Edward Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about I freely admit that Kickstart should not erase drives you've
explicitly told it not to.
Sounds good to me.
You're right. It shouldn't.
But please have a think about things you shouldn't do. Seriously, when
we get PCs in here for
David Busby wrote:
I'm in the boat with the folks who say read the manual and such.
Then you're on the wrong boat. It appalls me the level of software
quality that some people will not only put up with, but defend. I say
this as a software engineer, myself. If someone came to me and pointed
Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact, I explicitly told Kickstart to *only* make partitions on
the boot disk drive. It has no good reason to mess with the
partition tables of disk drives that it is not putting partitions
onto.
You're evadng the point.
No, I am not.
You
Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Douglas Alan wrote:
I haven't used kickstart myself but I would expect it to remove all
partitions on all disks if you told it to remove all existing
partitions ..
That's a mighty literal interpretation of all when it comes to
valuable data. I
nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In that case, you can explicitly delete these partitions or configure the
install program to delete these partitions for you, rather than have the
install program *automatically* delete them for you.
looking at the kickstart docs(again never used it myself),
nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Umm, if I had, err, by chance, configured Kickstart to remove all
existing partitions, it wouldn't happen to remove all partitions on ALL
disk drives, would it, and not just the boot disk drive?
I haven't used kickstart myself but I would expect it to remove
Umm, if I had, err, by chance, configured Kickstart to remove all
existing partitions, it wouldn't happen to remove all partitions on ALL
disk drives, would it, and not just the boot disk drive?
And if it would, is there any way that I might recover them? (The ones
on the other disk drives, that
Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:23, Douglas Alan wrote:
What does it mean if in all my man pages there is a ??? wherever there
should be a -?
This is on Red Hat 8.0.
It probably means that you're using a terminal emulator that's
incapable
What does it mean if in all my man pages there is a ??? wherever there
should be a -?
This is on Red Hat 8.0.
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Yoink! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does this output from my box match yours?
[...]
if you don't find an error there, do a:
rpm -Va | egrep -v tty|dev and let me know what you get.
[...]
Everything looks find. But since I installed the latest kernel a couple
of days ago, the problem hasn't
Yoink! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Douglas Alan wrote:
Ever since I upgraded to Red Hat 8.0, the virtual consoles have become
broken. They work when I first boot the computer, but after some amount
of time they stop working. I.e., if I type ctrl-alt-F1 or ctrl-alt-F2
Mike Burger wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Douglas Alan wrote:
Ever since I upgraded to Red Hat 8.0, the virtual consoles have become
broken. They work when I first boot the computer, but after some amount
of time they stop working. I.e., if I type ctrl-alt-F1 or ctrl-alt-F2,
etc., all I
Ever since I upgraded to Red Hat 8.0, the virtual consoles have become
broken. They work when I first boot the computer, but after some amount
of time they stop working. I.e., if I type ctrl-alt-F1 or ctrl-alt-F2,
etc., all I get is a black screen.
Since I usually run at run-level 3, this is
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