[ale] Linux install breaking windows?

Damon L. Chesser damon at damtek.com
Wed Feb 8 18:13:31 EST 2012


On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:10 -0500, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 05:58 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Reminds me of my first f'up when I learned Linux in the early 90s.
> > 
> > I wanted to copy a file from Linux to DOS.  Here is how I did it:
> > 
> > cat file > /dev/hda2

mkswapfs / (Enter now because I am typing fast) 

Doh!

> 
> I did that early on in my Linux days.  I had my important data on
> floppies (I have never had a tape drive in my life), so I didn't panic.
>  In fact, I think that's when I found dosemu or something like that and
> figured out that I need not ever restore that, so I redid the system and
> had Linux use the whole thing.  :)
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 
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