Subject: SLS 1.03 hosing /dev/hda1 !! From: jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com (Joe George) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1993 17:47:59 EST
I'm posting this as a warning since I've received mail that the problem
I had with a hosed /dev/hda1 has occurred to other users.
SLS 1.03 (which I downloaded from sunsite) has a potentially serious
gotcha in it which I think you should be aware of. After installing the
SLS, /etc/rc will call 'swapon -a' all well and good, but if you check
/dev/swap you'll see that it is aliased to /dev/hda1. Since a good
number of people have real data on /dev/hda1, when swapon gets to it it
will just simply stomp all over the data there and make it a swap
partition.
After you install SLS but BEFORE YOU BOOT IT, reboot the A1 disk, mount
the disk where you installed Linux and re-alias /dev/swap to your real
swap partition. And make sure you back up /dev/hda1 before you start
installing it, just to be safe.
Joe 'Lets reload 110MB of data now, shall we?' George