Hi,
Would anyone have any suggestions for the following:
A user, not really in an awake mode, was trying to create a new network
boot floppy for the installation of RedHat 7.3 over a network. The
command used was:
dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/hda
Now, you can see the problem, as the first 1.44 mb of the hard disk was
overwritten by the install floppy image, and the computer just does
exactly as the install image would do when it is booted.
It looks as if it took the partition tables with it as well when this
happened as fdisk cannot see any partitions.
Would anyone have any suggestions? As there was some stuff on the
machine which was quite useful.
Cheers,
Phil
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