Re: ressurecting a failed attempt to upgrade to sarge, w/out tossing /home

[RRPotratz <thunderbolt@dustypenguin.com>]

matthew bradley wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: RRPotratz [mailto:thunderbolt@dustypenguin.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:18 AM
> > To: matthew bradley
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: ressurecting a failed attempt to upgrade to sarge, w/out
> > tossing /home
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> > You didn't say for sure, but is home part of partition 3 or is it
> > mounted on partition1?  Also is this a dual boot system with windoze?
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> >    
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> Home is part of partition 3 and it is not a dual boot system. Thanks.
>
> Matt
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Well,  if you had 'doze on partition 1 you could use the utility found 
at the link below to get the data off partition 3 assuming it is indeed 
ext2.

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

Baring installing windoze on a linux box to do that, the best bet it to 
get lilo fixed.  Hopefully someone will have some titbits for you on 
that one.

Somethings to chew on:

http://www.preggers.easynet.be/lilo.html

http://tux.oclug.on.ca/pipermail/oclug/2001-January/001175.html

http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/