So make yourself a boot and rescue diskset, check out the linux partitions
on the hdd by running fdisk and quitting. mount each linux partition in
turn and see what it contains. If it has /etc you've struck gold. just
open /etc/fstab and photograph and frame it. I read somewhere that the
only things a sysadmin should always carry are copies of the fstab and the
partition table.
HTH,
\Indraneel
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
> No This Time It,s Not my problem but my Friend's.
> He had This Dual boot $doze + RHL 6.2. He used to take backup of his entire
> precious $Doze data on the linux Partition for the simple reason => "Just In
> Case, If Any Thing Goes Wrong With $Doze" and that obvious thing happened on
> 30
> July and he formatted his hard disk to remove the whole junk and
> re-installed
> his $Doze again but one big thing went wrong.
> LILO is Gone!!!
> Now the problem is that he does not know where the Linux Partition is viz.
> hda2,
> hda3 or even hdb1,2,3 etc. Why???
> Because I installed RHL for him and I forgot on which I installed Linux.
> More
> over He knows NOTHING about Linux except how to play XMMS.
> So please help me help him install LILO without erasing anything from that
> partition because all his data is on that partition. All he has got with him
> is
> PCQ CD of June- RHL.
> Thanks in Advance,
> Suraj Kumar,
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