Hm, I thought that only here the local distributors were unfriendly to
private customers. Looks to me if they are on other locations, too. I had
some good experiences with the bigger distributors, like the European one
(Scholz Elektronik or some this similiar check FAQ). If they also get you
into trouble, don't throw you board away.
You haven't written which kind of hard drive you use or what kind of
error had happened. If you muse that the error is caused by the hard
diskcontroller, then just use the approriate controller card. I think that
that may work around for a while for rescueing your data. Who knows may be
you could lend a controller from someone.
> In the mean time, when I tried to mount the hard drive from my Alpha
> system on my old 486 linux system it refused to because it said the
> partition table was bad; just to confirm - does the minlabel program
> use a different partitioning scheme, and if so, is there any way to
> mount the hard drive on a 486 linux system? Or any way to recover
> the data? I know how I had the partitions set up on the hard drive;
> if the parition table is in the same spot on the disk, just a different
> format, I can :probably: enter the right values for it.
As far as I had experienced I belive that fdisk and minilabel do create
different partition schemes. At least they aren't compatible as you had
experienced. I don't know what the differences are, but I think if you
browse through the source of both programs (minilabel and fdisk) you may
find the difference.
> Or am I just out of luck? :/
I'm sorry that I couldn't help you more, but may be it is a small help.
> :Please: email responses. I just installed Caldera on my 486, and had
> backed most of my files on my Alpha, and my Alpha crashed before I could
> recover them all. Some of these files I do not have backed up anywhere
> else. :/
>
> A very unhappy (ex?) Alpha Linux user.
Uh, that's pity.
> Kim Liu
> bookwyrm@netcom.com
My aren't we fond of books :)
Ciao
Torsten
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