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RE: stupid me
- To: "Ira Abramov" <lists-linux-il(at-nospam)ira.abramov.org>, "IGLU Mailing list" <linux-il(at-nospam)iglu.org.il>
- Subject: RE: stupid me
- From: "Tzahi Fadida" <muaddib(at-nospam)mailandnews.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:11:33 +0200
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If we are on the subject,
A few days ago i decided to install mandrake on my linux partition.
The thing was, is that i had a lot of space for it and i didn't mind it to install its default stuff, so
i made a genius decision: i choose "recommended install" instead of expert.
so..., i click clicked my install oblivious to the horrors at the end of the tunnel.
Innocent me, relied on the common sense of people when messing with the MBR, you should ask
the person who's computer you are messing with it before doing so! and to my amazement DrakX
installed grub automagically on my main MBR where my windows 2000/win98 table resides! and when i booted it gave me "00100010010100101010", which could get most people running in panic.
well, old me knows from the past the horrors of the MBR, so i was only screaming in horror instead of commiting suicide. ok, "what do i do" you hear yourself screaming at the top of your lungs while creeping shadows of stupidty come lurking behind your back weighing heavily on your chest.
Ok, what i did next was pure gamble. i had my old win98 disk with fdisk. so i gambled with the "fdisk /mbr" which by mere chance didn't fried my other partitions, and breathed more easily since my linux stuff was backed. on the other hand my win2000 was not, and i have many documents that i was lasy to backup unbackuped.
Now i fixed the win2000 boot process pretty easily, but now i found that the registry went to hell somehow( i am addmitting to nothing) so after finding ntfsdos 3.03?! (damn windows) i somehow managed to enter the ntfs partition fix the registry from a temp backup it made, log in to windows, only to find the disk drive letter changed which now windows decided is so bad that it must: log into my account and immediatly save and exit it with no reason!? (DAMMMn windows!!!), fewwe, k steady urself, u already lost 7 hrs on the damn thing trying to muddle thru. k now resintall(upgrade?!) windows/fix it. k, it loads. but wait! to my horror the registry relates all applications reinalled to the new disk and the old registry tags to the new disk.
k, found registry crawler on the web and mass edit them to the old disk. fix the drive letter, reinstall updates
again (sp2 sp emoo...). k back to square 1.
K, brought the garbage, poored some alcohol+refined fertilizer and 2 mandrake discs and ran yelling "fire in the hole!", "PUZAZ!".
downloaded redhat, entered vmware, blocked all acess to my non-linux partitions, installed redhat, and all was well.
loss of productivity time = 12hrs. DAMMN MANDRAKE, DAMN WINDOWS!!!!
K, got it out of my system.
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Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi@mailandnews.com
Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213
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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il]On Behalf Of Ira Abramov
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:11 PM
To: IGLU Mailing list
Subject: Re: stupid me
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nimrod Simba Carmi wrote:
> I'd boot from a Slackware installation CD, or any other installation CD
yeah, Debian will also do, and Red Hat may still have a rescue mode if
they didn't get rid of it. but if a CD is not handy (which is usually
the case) I'd look for debian boot floppies, or VAresearch rescue
floppies which are also excellent.
ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/software/emergency_media/
> > This is unbelievably stupid of me - but I managed to delete /bin and /boot
> > - serves me right for working as root.
powerful life changing experiance. you should count your blessings!
my Ex tried to talk me into switching to Debian for months, but I
finally did it only after I deliriously removed /etc on my Mandrake
at 3am one day.
EVERYBODY should do this once. it's a very cleansing experiance. Even
Linus deleted his source tree once by mistake and rewrote big parts of
the kernel. his solution was simple and briliant - upload it to an FTP
mirror where everybody will mirror it without even noticing. sneaky
bastard.
--
Here I go again
Ira Abramov
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