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Re: stupid me



I get the feeling that there is a fair bit of sloppyness in all the mainline 
distros of late, probably due to to "commercial considerations". Before I do an 
upgrade/install I always check the net for the latest "horror stories".

For example, the SuSE 7.3 upgrade using the GUI interfaces may trash your system.

For example, if you have a Matrox G400 (like me), the X install will hang the 
process unless you recompile the kernel with framebuffers disabled.

And a few more such things.

The fact is, Linux is a serious system, unless you use the expert mode for 
install/upgrade, you're asking for trouble.

This should be worrying to the advocacy people. More another time.

Tzahi Fadida wrote:

> 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.
> 
> * - * - *
> Tzahi Fadida
> Tzahi@mailandnews.com
> Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213
> * - * - * - * - * - *
> 
> 
> -----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.
> 
> 



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