Mark,
Oh man, that's very bad news to hear...
I ran into a similar problem. My best defense was to turn the power off.
Run a cold boot your computer.
It took me 4 installations of "development" before I got it right. Some
nasty bugs in this one.
As far as Direct X, I recommend to stick with 7.0a for now. I wonder if
there is an imaging tool for Linux?
I hope you get it up an running.
Roman
Adrian Smith wrote:
>
> hey Mark --
> sorry to hear you had such a nasty turn of events. i rather wonder about this also.
> when i installed 7.0 everything worked great.
>
> when i installed 7.1 i had no printer and a persistent "failed" message on shut down.
>
> installed 7.2 yesterday --
> 3 fail messages on start up
> 4 fail messages on shut down
> LILO no work over 1024 cylinder
> number lock goes off when X starts
> i told the install program where to mount each partiton -- some of them it did
>exactly what i asked it to do, some others it put where it wanted them ?????
> i told X a resolution of 1024x768 (or whatever it is.... like i remember) but i got
>a resolution of 800x600 when i actually started up X
> i created a user account when installing yet when i booted the system first time,
>there were no user accounts, only root.
> had to boot into the console only mode - when i tried to use 'shutdown' to shutdown
>(duh) the system locked up & i had to power off.
> finally, all the files on my /home had a different owner once i got my user account
>created, so i gotta run around 3 partitions (/home /backup /home/skippi/work) and do
>a chown.
> the 7.2 install does seem to be a very bad animal.
> of course, my problems are not near the level of yours.
>
> i agree with the "don't fix what ain't broken thing" and i learned that yet again
>when i upgraded windows direct x 7 to direct x 8. now half my games don't work. oh
>well, i wanted to spend all weekend fixing my computer anyhow. =)
>
> i don't mind your venting. who knows, 7.0 may find it's way back to my computer if
>i can't fix all this stuff.
>
> Adrian Smith
> 'de telepone dude
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> >>> Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6:35:54 PM 12/6/00 >>>
> Geez! I wish I would-a had one of those fancy install thing-a-ma-bobs this
> afternoon when an install attempt of Mandrake 7.2 wiped out my entire
> friggin workstation! Who's the nit wit responsible for so drastically
> changing the install program and process?
>
> When, during the first install, a few too many errors cause major problems
> with running the system after a rebooted, I restarted the install process.
> Sadly I didn't recognize what was happening till it was too late. The
> installation program, on it's own started an auto-install and in under 5
> seconds wiped my entire workstations hard drive. 10 friggin GB's of
> data...GONE!
>
> Never before in my life have a ever seen a program behave in such a
> severely BAD manner. It didn't ask me what I wanted; I, of course wanted
> to do an expert install where I have total control of everything that goes
> on. There's a certain way I want the OS installed for certain reasons.
>
> In a nut shell when I booted the system with the floppy that I used to
> boot the system the first time which went off without a hitch, the rotten
> bastard went straight into an auto-install.
>
> Mandrake, when you can make a mess of an experienced users machine like
> this I think it's time to take a look at a lesson that I again learned the
> hardway. If it isn't friggin broken...DON'T FRIGGIN TRY AND FIX IT. LEAVE
> things as they were when they WORKED!
>
> I'm refering to the installation process. A few KEY things were changed
> and just enough to cause a moments confusion which cost this user 10GB of
> data. Most is backed up on the servers, but there were still some things
> that I hadn't gotten to. Now I'm going to have to go back and RE-do the
> things that didn't get sent up to the server...not to mention I've got one
> HELL of a fight on my hands getting that beast backup.
>
> Thank you to the list for allowing me this chance to vent. It's pretty
> much final that 7.2 will NOT make it to my home PC. KDE2 & Koffice or not.
> Mandrake 7.2 is one Penguin that is going to be sanctioned with extreme
> prejudice!
>
> Mark
>
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