Re: Bug#60397: boot-floppies: deleting is not a good idea
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> > Hmmm ... but I did not repartition anything. The disk layout, all
> > partitions and all mountpoints have stayed the same :-/
>
> Then this was your partition layout under redhat:
>
> /dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
> /dev/hda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
That's exact.
> That means that under redhat, /home was on the / partition.
Yes.
> Which in turn means that you must have told debian to use the /dev/hda5
> for / when you were installing Debian.
Yes.
> Which, in turn means that you should have seen the notice that doing so
> would wipe out the contents of that partition. If you did not see that
> notice, perhaps we have a bug in the installer -- it used to print such a
> notice and it should still do so.
I don't remember seeing any warning, but that doesn't mean I haven't just
plain missed it.
What the install process did certainly not do is to wipe out the -whole-
partition either, just /home (and maybe some stuff I didn't notice). It
did f.ex. not wipe out the directory /rhat and (I think) it also didn't wipe
out either /usr/lib /lib or /usr because the install process bailed out at
some point with library mismatches, which (I think) were coming from the
fact that the install process succeeded in installing only part of the
necessary binaries xor the libraries. Upon which I moved /lib /usr /sbin
/etc /root /dev to the /rhat directory and restarted the install from the
start.
*t
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