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Re: [sheflug] Gentoo 2006.0

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Subject: Re: [sheflug] Gentoo 2006.0
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0000
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On 20/03/06, Peter Humphrey <prh [at] gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 20 March 2006 12:30, Graham Allott wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't use the graphical installer if you've any extended partitions
> > - it has a bug which can delete them (the partition records, not the
> > data, I hope) - even if they aren't being modified in the install.
>
> Thanks for the warning. I might well have fallen into that one without it.

also be carful if you have more than one os, the grapical installer
managed to kill my XP install.. but I think it was more that PQ magic
somehow borked my partition table... it went somthing like this

P1
P4
P3
P2

and I dont think the installer liked that AT all.......

best way IMO is still the text based setup :)

Brett

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