Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2634 mails)

[JB <yonaton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 March 07 07:20, JB wrote:

  <snip good suggestions>

  Well, after trying to do this a couple different ways by suggestions from 
good folk on this list, I must report that they all failed, but not because 
of the suggestions, but because for some reason the W98 cd kept having so 
much trouble recognizing one of the two dvd drives and one of the two hdd's.

  Even after having jumpered all drives to 'master' and 'slave' (instead of 
'cable select') and fixing what booted first, second and third in the BIOS, 
my W98 cd *still* somehow overwrote just small enough of my SuSE hdd to make 
it that the SuSE dvd couldn't find a linux fs...<sigh>.

  Soooo...I figure 'screw installing windoze, I got rid of it in the first 
place for a damn good reason, and remember what it was now!'. I also figured 
since I had made a backup of my /home partition a couple weeks earlier, a 
re-install wasn't going to be too bad...here's the kicker:

  For those who are like me and didn't/don't know or might forget, *make sure 
you backup the *hidden* files too!!!*. If you don't, you'll lose a lot, a 
whole lot. I know, it just happened to me, heh heh. How's that for somethin' 
sneakin' up on ya and grabbin' ya by the poo-poo.
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