From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Noob says Hi ..
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:05:50 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimYALWwro6NBM94q10VNpHOD7cxg993J19HsA-x@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101130825490.4272@fryrpg-zna>
I've trashed my partition table more than once in the past years
TeskDisk always saved my ass, I just booted a linux live cd,
download the static binary and fixed my partition table...
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
>> > When I start the install process from the Live CD, I'll probably be
>> > asked to choose a partition where I want Plan9 to live, right?
>> >
>> > I'll choose one; it'll warn me that the partition is already in use,
>> > do I want to overwrite it? I'll reply, yes, and BOOM the partition is
>> > committed to Plan9. The rest of my partitions are left alone! - right?
>> > Much obliged.
>>
>> nice in theory. in practice, make backups.
>
> I was waiting for that one to pop up. :)
>
> If it's _that_ unpredictable, I think that I'll install it on a spare
> box. FWIW, 8 mos ago, I installed XP on Part1; Linux on 2 (with the
> swap on an extended partition); PcBSD on 3; and Native Oberon on 4.
>
> used Gnome `gparted' to resize and move partitions, with XP still in
> Part.1
>
> Zero problems! No OS install tried to mess with another partition. So,
> are you being overly cautious here, or is there a real danger that
> Plan9 has a run-away?
>
> --
> Duke
>
>
--
Federico G. Benavento
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-14 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-13 14:30 Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 14:38 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-01-13 15:15 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 14:43 ` Jacob Todd
2011-01-13 15:10 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 15:12 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 15:33 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 15:40 ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-01-13 15:44 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 15:59 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 15:42 ` Tassilo Philipp
2011-01-14 0:05 ` Federico G. Benavento [this message]
2011-01-14 0:31 ` Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 16:06 Duke Normandin
2011-01-13 16:51 ` Tassilo Philipp
2011-01-13 18:21 ` Duke Normandin
[not found] ` <dcb4736d2e43c99bcf89af37a9d0addd-EhVcXl1ERwBcRx0AAAwEUR8fGQlVS19>
2011-01-13 16:56 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 17:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-13 17:48 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-13 18:20 ` Duke Normandin
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