SOTL wrote:
>Something is definitely screwed up with the Common_Data partition.
>
>I finally got Mandrake to start installation. I say finally because steps that
>normally take minutes took over an hour each, Finally I got to the section in
>custom installation where you set partitions and then format the partitions
>of your choice before installation. After 30 minutes or so the install
>program finally kicked installation to a subroutine where you had the choice
>of several types of formating for Common_Data compete HD reformatting,
>throwing Common_Data out or something else. I chose to power down remove the
>installation disk and then start up again. Which it did in exactly the format
>it did before I started playing with new installation so things are still as
>the were before I started installation.
>
>All this is telling me is that there is something serve wrong with partitions.
>What I have no idea or how to fix either.
>
>Any advice would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Frank
>
>On Saturday 30 October 2004 04:25 pm, Ken Elliott wrote:
>
>
>>>>As originally set up partitions were as follows per cat /etc/fstab
>>>>/dev/hda5 /home/trunk/Common_Dara vfat
>>>>
>>>>
>>Any chance that you've lost a lower numbered partition, and your
>>Common_Data partition has changed?
>>
>>In other words, it might now be /dev/hda4 or /dev/hda3?
>>
>>
>>Ken Elliott
>>
>>=====================
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of SOTL
>>Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 4:05 PM
>>To: slug@nks.net; Christopher Hotchkiss
>>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Mounting
>>
>>Actually this is Mandrake 9.1 being ran as root.
>>
>>On Saturday 30 October 2004 11:57 am, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It could be that your kernel doesnt have support for vfat anymore, are
>>>you trying this from knoppix?
>>>
>>>
>>No
>>
>>
>>
>>>Or are you using the recovery kernel?
>>>
>>>
>>Not sure
>>
>>
>>
>>>You also could try 'fsck'.
>>>
>>>
>>Warning message: Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause Severe
>>filesystem damage.
>>Do you want to continue (y/n)?
>>Action aborted by myself by use of No answer. Sorry can not risk the
>>potential failure.
>>
>>Also I have tried to reinstall Mandrake which then hangs up on /home
>>partition. So that is not an option. Installation abborted due to hangup.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Frank
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:52:04 -0400, SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi All
>>>>
>>>>In the last Dunedin Paul was so gracious to help with my crashed
>>>>laptop. Thanks to Paul I can now boot the computer into root and as
>>>>root I can send/receive email which will be the easy to transfer the
>>>>data I am trying to recover.
>>>>
>>>>For those of you who have forgotten, didn care, or did not read the
>>>>previous set of e-mail I crashed a Mandrake 9.1 system by visiting
>>>>some web site which apparently had a java script which trashed
>>>>/home. Attempts by myself to recover by reinstalling the system
>>>>failed with such attempts finally destroying system boot. Paul was
>>>>so gracious as to modify the boot such that system now boots directly
>>>>
>>>>
>>but /home is still obviated.
>>
>>
>>
>>>>Currently I am stilltrying to extract critical file data from a
>>>>directory I called Common_Data.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The following error message was received:
>>>>Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too
>>>>many mounted file systems.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone have any suggestions as how to proceed to mount this
>>>>partition so that the data may be extrated.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Frank
>>>>
>>>>-------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
If you have a Linux desktop PC available, I would get an adapter that lets
you plug a laptop HD into it and try trouble shooting it with a fully
working
system. Any installation or extensive operation on the only HD in the laptop
is likely to overwrite and corrupt the data you are trying to save.
Richard Smoot
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