>
> Really sorry :-((((((
>
> Here is the why of these problems:
>
> - eraseBadPartitions was on
> - somewhere, the partition table could be written with no warning (silly me :( )
>
> Now this will not happen anymore (at least, i truly hope) !!!
That's okay, it is an experimental distribution after all. (Of course, my
response right after the problem might have been a bit different :)
>
>
> As you seem to be able to restore your partition table :)
> could you send me the following
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hdc
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 392 3148708+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdb3 588 849 2104515 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb4 850 1232 3076447+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb5 1 359 2883604+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb6 360 392 265040+ 82 Linux swap
> echo -e "x\np\nq\n" | /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdc
> (which is, (p)rint in e(x)pert mode of fdisk)
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 00 1 1 0 254 63 391 63 6297417 05
2 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
3 00 0 1 587 254 63 848 9430155 4209030 83
4 00 0 1 849 254 63 102313639185 6152895 83
5 00 2 1 0 254 63 358 63 5767209 83
6 00 1 2 359 254 63 391 63 530081 82
(I gave you hdb instead of hdc, as hdc is my cdrom drive. :)
You'll note that there is room for an extra partition from cylinder 393 to
587 (hdb2) This was the partition I was going to use for cooker (I didn't
bother to recreate it yet as it wasn't even formatted.)
Also, hda was never touched. I have two partitions on there. One with an
ancient NT partition, and one with the cooker distribution.
> that way i may be able to find the main problem, that is diskdrake not being
> able to understand your partition table and blanking it...
Okay, I had one other problem too. As other people reported, the GUI
really started to slow down. It was okay for the beginning when it asked
for the Language, and the install options, but when diskdrake started to
launch, it really got slow.
Chris
