Yellowdog installer just blew away my disk...

Stephen Reiach yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jun 19 21:12:01 2002


On Wednesday 19 June 2002 10:37, John T Nelson wrote:
> Wow that's a good price!  I tried to recover the disk just by booting a
> Mac Installer CD and seeing if the damaged disk would mount.  All the
> disks mounted *except* my boot partition so I assumed that the partitio=
n
> is unrecoverable.  I reinitialized the disk with OS 8 and YellowDog 2.2
> from scratch and now I'm back up and running within a few hours.
>
> But what happens when YDL 2.3 is released?  I shudder to think.
>

When 2.3 comes out you'll be able to 'apt-get dist-update'.  And your don=
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Which is one of the main reasons YDL has moved to using Apt.

Stephen Reiach.