Yellowdog installer just blew away my disk...

[Nathan A. McQuillen]

Um...

Why on earth would you need to use a partition editor for what is
essentially a monster package upgrade? I haven't seen the 2.2 graphical
installer but isn't there a way to tell it to use your existing partition
map and mount points, instead of pretending like you're starting from
scratch? Oh well.

I think, if you can remember how your old partition map looked (I always
print one out with pdisk before messing around) and you haven't formatted
anything, you can create a new partition map with the old specs and that
should recover your partitions...  might be dead wrong here but I /think/
I've done this at times.

My two cents says that graphical partitioning and mount point creation
tools for Linux are usually one level of abstraction too many, especially
when the command line tools make so much (more?) sense. There once was a
great little guide to pdisk and setting up mount points, I think available
with the LinuxPPC Q4 release, but it may now be unavailable.

- n

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, John Nelson wrote:

>
> Oh for crying out loud... I just tried to upgrade my old YDL 2.1 system
> with YDL 2.2 and the disk partition editor just mangled my partitions and
> trashed all the partitions on my disk.
>
> Not only did it blow away my Linux partitions but I think it just
> destroyed the disk label and the Mac partitions too... when I try to
> reboot into Mac OS I get a floppy disk with a flashing question mark.
>
> YDL's installer scripts have always been sensitive (bombing out with
> errors on perfectly good file systems, inability to properly upgrade) but
> now I've lost data that might not be recoverable (that's why I try to
> keep good backups).
>
> What pisses me off about this is there's really no reason for this.
> Installation scripts shouldn't be rocket science.  I think it's time to
> start looking at better PPC distributions...
>
> -- John
>
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