Re: Minix crash

[q-funk@citenet.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Per.Erik Peterson wrote:
 >
 >> My Mint partition is not to exist anymore. Is there some Edge/Sentry-like
 >> program that will work on a minix partition as I think there is  FAT problem if
 >> I'm lucky.
 >
 >There's no FAT problem on your minix partition, simply because minix 
 >has no FATs. For repairing you can use fsck.ttp under MiNT (I guess the 
 >usage is 'fsck.ttp X:' where X is the GEMDOS name of minix partition).
 >
 >But with KGMD it's easier to reinstall everything from scratch, I think.

Precisely why I never will install Minix.  If/when a problem
happens, you're dead meat; you data is lost for good. Not so
under FAT, because there is a plethora of recovery utilities
for standard TOS (ie: DOS) partitions.


-----------------------------------------------------------------
From: Martin-Eric Racine FUNKYWARE http://www.megacom.net/~q-funk
Atari TT030 4/24/50 NVDI 4.11, MiNT 1.14, GlueSTiK 0.2b4, AES 4.1
-----------------------------------------------------------------
    "By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to
     believe in human potential, not God." -- Gloria Steinem
-----------------------------------------------------------------