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| Thread ID: 71399 | 2006-08-04 21:57:00 | Has Linux stuffed my ext HD? | Shortcircuit (1666) | Press F1 |
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| 476138 | 2006-08-05 02:15:00 | No, sorry Graham- I'd have to disagree there. I'm not the only one who followed the Linux setup instructions only to find it ignored what it was supposed to be doing. Ask SurferJoe how many disks it wiped out :dogeye: Unfortunately in Linux there is no way for a user to be REALLY sure of what they are doing... too many conflicting ways of doing things and apparently simple tasks turn very complicated quickly. At the moment I dislike Windows, but I dislike Linux more. I'd have to say that I am in awe of those who can do anything useful with Linux... brains must be hardwired different to 'normal' people :D |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 476139 | 2006-08-05 02:27:00 | I have a suspicion that I know exactly how Joe, not Linux, did in his disk partitions. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 476140 | 2006-08-05 02:39:00 | According to what was related, he did the same as I did. When the Linux install said something along the lines of: 'Would you like to leave Windows on your machine and Linux can make a new partition...' click YES and Windows is gone, easy as that and minimal user intervention required :thumbs: | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 476141 | 2006-08-05 02:49:00 | That's the classic example of disastrous actions Linux leaves to the user. In order to stuff up the Windows installation, it has to be told to do that. Unfortunately there is no way to ensure that the user is really sure, and if so that the certainty is based on knowledge. :D You assume, Graham, that the software doesn't have any bugs or other "features". Although in alot of cases (and I'm not suggesting SC did anything wrong), yes, the user told the software to do it but not in all cases. Windows or Linux can quite happily render itself unusable by some sequence of events :waughh: |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 476142 | 2006-08-05 02:59:00 | Windows or Linux can quite happily render itself unusable by some sequence of events :waughh: Agreed. I'm not saying that I didn't do something wrong... apparently I'm not conversant enough with Linux to know better :( From recent experience testing in a real world environment :p it appears that Linux is just as capable of screwing things up as Windows, OSX or whatever other OS you want to pick. Sounds very like the standard help-desk reply to me "No sir/madam... it must be user error." |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 476143 | 2006-08-05 03:00:00 | At some point it will have asked Joe which of his disks or partitions to use . If he wanted to use partition 2 of the third drive, and he told it to use "/dev/hdc" instead of "/dev/hdc2", that would tell it to use the whole disk . That is the sort of little thing which leads to tears before bedtime . The user is assumed to know what he is doing . A Major Software manufacturer once issued a new version of its OS . That offered the "new" feature of compressed disks as part of the OS . For many people it installed and worked with not too many problems . Unfortunately, anyone who had a "D:" disk would find that they no longer had any data on that drive . In that case it was the manufacturer which assumed too much . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 476144 | 2006-08-05 04:27:00 | OK guys..what really happened on the bolloxed install was that I had 8 hdds and it asked me what drive I wanted to use...I told it "K" drive (in the real LINUX lingo, anyway) and it wiped out 4 hdds, H, I, J, K. That was three too many...right? I still have not found my H or I drives, although Belarc says they are alive and healthy! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 476145 | 2006-08-05 05:47:00 | I still have not found my H or I drives, although Belarc says they are alive and healthy! They're probably just 'spinning in another dimenison' like my external drive :) |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 476146 | 2006-08-05 06:52:00 | I went nearly crazy when it happened . . . but you gotta remember that I have had one successful install and one screwed up . :( In both cases, I did what the version asked . . . for Mepis it went well, for Kubuntu it fragged . Instructions are to be followed . . . . . especially when one is in strange terrritory . . and that's what I did . My good fortune on them both was that I removed anything I valued from what I considered and expendable drive . . . on the Dell, it was the E drive; on the SOYO I set up K drive . Both installs went ok . . except somewhere the wheels fell off the Kubuntu, and it erased four hdds, two of which I have recovered and two are still AWOL . The Dell dual-boots via grub, and the SOYO is just running the live version . . . but it runs well . . . not fast, but well . So . . I am both happy and a little upset with Linux so far . . . . . . :mad: I have resently installed Windows VM on both machines . . . and I will try a few other distros of Linux-things and see what happens . I am not angry . . . just a little miffed at losing three extra drives that had data that I considered safe from Linux formats . . . it even said it would only format one . . . but it lied . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 476147 | 2006-08-05 06:55:00 | I cannot make spelling corrections on the post I just made...after 11 tries! The site is so slow...it seems to be running below dial-up..and I get time outs and cannot finds too..... |
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