ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Let's just say "hypothetically," that I had to reinstall windows 2000. Let's also just say "hypothectically," that LILO was sitting on the windows partition. Now, how could I possibly access my Mandrake install again to copy some files onto another partition, so when I do a clean install, all my e-mail is retained? Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 RossThe procedure is:Have a Mandrake boot floppy that worksReinstall windows on the same partition, without altering that partition. It will overwrite the MBR . . . no panic.\Boot from the Mandrake boot-floppy and do "/sbin/lilo" as root to write lilo to the MBR again . . . and you will dualboot again.Then the clean install: Backup all your files of the Evolution directory you find in /home to CD . . . .then you can put the "local" files back after the clean install . . also backup everything else you want to keep from your Mandrake. Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 Have a Mandrake boot floppy that worksReinstall windows on the same partition, without altering that partition. It will overwrite the MBR . . . no panic.\Boot from the Mandrake boot-floppy and do "/sbin/lilo" as root to write lilo to the MBR again . . . and you will dualboot again.Then the clean install: Backup all your files of the Evolution directory you find in /home to CD . . . .then you can put the "local" files back after the clean install . . also backup everything else you want to keep from your Mandrake.Hypothetically...... the windows reinstallation was already done.... the system does not have a floppy....... Quote
teacher Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 No floppy drive? SimpleBut your Drake CD back in and let it go in to do a repair. Then skip down to the part where it says to configure Lilo and let it recreate it for you! Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Then your mail is lost ! . . . . You have one other chance . . . . install 9.2 . . . do not re-format the /home partition . . . your mail will be there, but the system will not run 100% . . so back up /evolution/local on the double . . . and do a clean install after that. Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 Then your mail is lost ! . . . . You have one other chance . . . . install 9.2 . . . do not re-format the /home partition . . . your mail will be there, but the system will not run 100% . . so back up /evolution/local on the double . . . and do a clean install after that. BrunoWhy on earth would my mail be lost....???Could I access the folder with KNoppix so I can copy it??? Quote
teacher Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Then your mail is lost ! . . . .A repair will not dump your mail! Been there, done that! I have repaired many timed (much to Bruno's horror) and even used it to reinstate a missing Lilo! Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Repair will do it too . . . . good point Julia !! Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 That is good to hear...... By the way, folks.... I AM USING THUNDERBIRD!!!! hehehehe...... Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 By the way, folks.... I AM USING THUNDERBIRD!!!! hehehehe......You´re on your own then !!! Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 Hey, now, Bruno........I thought this was supposed to be a newbie-friendly forum!! Quote
teacher Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Thunderbird is fine. I use it some too. In fact that is what I use if I must be in Windows. I see Ryan is around. He will give you any fine tuning pointers on thunderbird. Just use the repair and configure Lilo and you are set. Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 Going to try that now.... I was just waiting for my 18GB of data to finish copying.... Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 How refreshing to be back in the glow of KDE...... Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 Not really, I cannot access my newly reformatted D: partition...... it used to be /mnt/win_d and a NTFS partition.... I want to be able to write to the disk in Mandrake..... however, when I go to mnt/win_d, it shows 0 files and folders, and disk drake thinks it is NTFS yet.I don't know where to go from here.... Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 I think you have to mount that partition first . . you can do that in the MCC or on the commandline as root# mount /dev/hda? /mnt/win_dThen you can access it. Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 No workie.... a message pops up from MCC, but goes away far too quickly to be read.Should I just format the partition from the MCC? It still needs to be FAT32, to maintain connectivity with windoze. Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Is D your backup partition ?? . . . Are you doing this in 9.2 ? Did you get the updates first, because there are bugs in drakx and harddrake . . . Is there a directory called win_d in /mnt ?? . . otherwise you can´t mount to it . . . Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 D is my Docs partition.I am doing this in 9.2, but did not update yet.yes, win_d is in /mnt.Gotta update now..... Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Yep, update first to get the bugs out . . . and wait 60 seconds after you close the MCC to open any menu . . . ( another bug ) it has to write the new files to cache . . Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 MCC is now saying that the partition is mounted, but navigating to it in Konquerer is giving me an access denied error.<edit>MCC is reporting that the drive is NTFS, when it is FAT32. Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Try as root . . . $ su< password ># konquerorWill start up konqueror in an odd place, but as root . . Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 OK, that works.... now I can copy the files over and do a proper install of 9.2. Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Good !! Congrats !!!One problem solved . . . Bruno Quote
ross549 Posted October 24, 2003 Author Posted October 24, 2003 Sniff, sniff....... ahhhhhhh.... fresh Mandrake.....Does anyone have some teriyaki sauce? Quote
Bruno Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 Sure makes a man hungry doesn´t it ?? . . . . Congrats Ross . . . . . . and the SOUND ??? Bruno Quote
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