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Author: Brian Cluff
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Subject: Caution, SuSE Linux Live Eval loading
You don't understand.... This was just an evaluation that is supposed to,
for the most part, run completely off the CD with the exception being that
it puts a small sawp and small home directory on your C drive as files
mounted through the loopback device.
What happen in reality was that it did a little more writing to the disk
than I wanted as in it scrambled the actual partition information so the
whole drive itself shows up as a 4 gig. I could only wish that it had only
resized the drive. When I booted off a bootable dos floppy what I was
greeted with was a whole bunch of scrambled files names with 3 suse files
perfectly on the drive... all other files where scrambled.

I ran norton disk doctor on the drive and I was only able to recover about
100 files total. Considering that 18gig of it was full... thats fairly
lame.

Brian Cluff

----- Original Message -----

> Brian, SuSE will try and use all the remaining space on that drive that
> Windows wasn't using. Windows 2000 will also do the same thing. It's
> normal. You can remove SuSE and expand the partition back out.
>
> --
> Richard L. Proctor
> Krystal Computer Services
> PC Upgrades & Repairs
> 480-699-3098
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Cluff <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 4:23 PM
> Subject: Caution, SuSE Linux Live Eval loading
>
>
> > For all of those that got one of those SuSA live evals from with the

plug
> > meeting or the stamtisch. Be sure you run it on a machine that you

either
> > have backed up, or don't care about.
> > I just recently threw it in my machine at work to see how good of an
> > install it was so that I could give it to my boss with the

recommendation
> > that he play around with it and see how he likes it.
> > Well, I go it on and it all went beautifully. It's a very nice live

eval
> > indeed and was all set to march it over to him with the highest
> > reccomendation, but after shutting it down and trying to reboot this
> > windows machine back into windows I found that it had rewritten the

format
> > on my 20 gig drive to a 4 gig drive and thus causing to be become

totally
> > scrambled. Luckily I think I have a recent backup, but this would have
> > sucked if I had handed it over to my boss and had it scramble his drive.
> > I would probably never be able to get this place converted over to

linux.
> >
> > So anyway, watch out when booting those things. I'm betting they work
> > better on slightly oler machines that only have a max of 4 gig in them,
> > but I wouldn't bet my drive on it hehehe
> >
> > Brian Cluff
> >
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