[NTLUG:Discuss] Tcl/Tk

[Allen Flick]

alh wrote:

> > My Linux went dead when my son convinced me to
> > upgrade to Win98 and I haven't been able to restore
> > Linux yet.
> >
>
> did you make bootdisk during your linux install before the 98 upgrade?

I appreciate the offer here, but I was total dumbass & had not made
a bootdisk.  I made one for 5.1 when I first installed.  I had lots of
trouble getting my monitor to run under 5.1.  I'm not a real hacker
type, so that was absolutely zero fun.  Anyway, upgraded to 5.2 with
out a hitch.  Everything was great until updating to Win98 redid the
MBR and Lilo wouldn't come back up.

I fiddled & fiddled.  Used SuSE & booted from CD and thought I
had a clue.  Lost my mind there, & at one point while my son was
*helping* me I noticed that under fdisk the partitions were flagged
with a warning, or some such, about not ending on a cylinder boundary.

So, I booted off my RH CD managed to get in as root only.  Tried &
retried but could never get any of my assigned users to come up.  If
I didn't log in as root, the entry would die at the login screen.  So, I
went in as root, saved (with another dose of great pain!) the data I
had created.

Since then, all I've done is cry into my soggy cereal and talk about
doing a total reinstall, but I haven't worked up enough nerve to try
doing it yet.  I've just got some strange fear that something else will
go wrong.

That's where I stand though.

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