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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?

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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.:w00t: Bruno

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Hypothetically of course! :w00t:
Of Course ;) :lol:
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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....... ;) :lol: :w00t:
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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!

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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.:w00t: Bruno

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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.:w00t: Bruno
Why on earth would my mail be lost....???Could I access the folder with KNoppix so I can copy it???
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Then your mail is lost ! . . . .
A repair will not dump your mail! Been there, done that! :w00t: I have repaired many timed (much to Bruno's horror) and even used it to reinstate a missing Lilo!
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Repair will do it too . . . . good point Julia !!:w00t: Bruno

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That is good to hear...... By the way, folks.... I AM USING THUNDERBIRD!!!! hehehehe......

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By the way, folks.... I AM USING THUNDERBIRD!!!! hehehehe......
You´re on your own then !!! ;):w00t: Bruno
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Hey, now, Bruno........I thought this was supposed to be a newbie-friendly forum!! :w00t: ;)

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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.

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Going to try that now.... I was just waiting for my 18GB of data to finish copying.... B) B)

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How refreshing to be back in the glow of KDE...... B) B) B)

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So you´re all in the clear now ??B) Bruno

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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....

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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.B) Bruno

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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.

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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 . . . B) Bruno

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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.....

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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 . . B) Bruno

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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.

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Try as root . . . $ su< password ># konquerorWill start up konqueror in an odd place, but as root . . B) Bruno

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OK, that works.... now I can copy the files over and do a proper install of 9.2. :rolleyes:

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Good !! Congrats !!!One problem solved . . . :teehee::rolleyes: Bruno

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Sniff, sniff....... ahhhhhhh.... fresh Mandrake.....Does anyone have some teriyaki sauce? :teehee: o:) :rolleyes:

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Sure makes a man hungry doesn´t it ?? . . . . Congrats Ross . . . . . . and the SOUND ???:rolleyes: Bruno

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