Hi,
I sesolved the boot issue of the
reinstalation disk as posted in
another thread. Then I successfuly
ran a reinstall, so I thought.
Upon booting the system and beginning
to edit the fstab so that I could
automount cd and floppy, I discovered
that the swap file was on /dev/hdb.
That wasn't right, so I changed it do
hda2 where is should have been. This
is when I discovered that there where only
two partitions on the /dev/hda where the system
was installed as opposed to the three that
is usually installed.
Prior to reinstalling the system on hda,
hdb had three partitions on the drive.
After the reinstallation, hdb had only
one partition.
So, while I was doing, as the prompt told
me a reinstallation to a single drive, the
system actually, though it should not have,
deleted all partitions on hdb and created
a single 256 meg partition for the swap file.
This partition turned out to be a /boot partition
with all the boot files needed to boot.
Bad news. I then created a couple of linux
partitions one swap, and the other a ext3
partition to all fo which mounted. The swap
partition I created ended up having /boot files
on it? I didn't put them there, but maybe this
is normal?????
Ok, I then copied files over to the ext3 partition
on the drive as a backup. Sound safe? I then
shutdown the machine and unplugged the hdb drive
and booted with my reinstall disk and reinstalled
the system to the single drive the way it should
have done on the previouse reinstall.
Not happy:( Upont rebooting the system
after reconnecting the hdb drive, I
promplty began the task of mounting the
drive. It turns out that the drive became
corrupted and that my best intentions to
save those files I needed, email and all
that, has failed.
This leads me to a question:
Does this distro have anykind of a
reliable backup system?
I ask this because, the backup to desktop
does not funtion correctly. The restore fails.
reading posts from others, the tape backup
fails to restore.
For all it's ease of use, it appears that
the Mitel-SME distros biggest flaw is that
even when utilizing a backup that incorporates
two hard disks, you cannot trust that your
efforts are going to prove profitable.
Jeepers, if I wanted this kind of reliability,
I would stick with MS. However, linux is
supposed to be the better system. However,
it apears that Mitel did not insure a good
bakcup system.
I currently running a recovery program on the
corrupted partition in hopes that I will be
able to recover those files.
At this point, I cannot comfortably suggest that
people use this system. If you can't backup and
restore regardless of the way you are dooing it.
That's a bigger neg than Microsofts swiss cheese
security holes.
Ok that last one was a bit melodramatic:)
Or was it?
Scott
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