HELP WANTED----plan9 overwrote linux partition

[Xiao Ke xke@paul.rutgers.edu]

Hi, there,

Help wanted, Plan9, the so boasted next generation os is just a piece of
junk. This time, AT&T really picked a good name for plan9.

I've run linux1.2.0 for about a half year, everything seems OK.
Today, I download the plan9 to play with, it looks working too.
However, actually when I was installing plan9, it overwrote my linux
partition without any pre-warning.

My linux partition is not bootable now, and I try to boot from floppy,
and do fsck on it, it says: "bad magic number". So definately
plan9 overwrote my linux partition.

I want to recover my more than half-year work, since I don't have tape
backup. Please help! Any suggestion will be mostly appreciated.
I guess this is doable, since my linux partition occupies 400Mbytes, 
while plan9 only occupies 20Mbytes according to its installation notes,
so it looks like the rest 380Mbytes should be able to recoverd, sounds
reasonable?

Thanks,


-----Xiao Ke
xke@paul.rutgers.edu