Kelsey Bjarnason wrote:
> [snips]
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> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:15:45 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> I have grub installed pointing to a few Ubuntu versions and a (hosed) XP
>>> installation. I need to re-install XP. Will it wipe Grub? What are the
>>> best steps to take to ensure I dont wipe my Linux installation?
>>
>> Whether Widnows got b0rked, or clogged up, or infected, I really can't
>> tell. But I have never /re/-installed Linux on any of my machines.
>
> I did, once, after a particularly boneheaded mistake whilst running as
> root and fiddling with file permissions... globally, as it turns out...
Exactly - to break Linux/Unix you have to abuse it, to break XP you just
have to use it.
This reminds me of someone at work (not me) who once did a rm -rf in the
root of a customer's server (either unixware or AIX, I'm not sure) over a
remote login and didn't realise until the session closed itself and
customer rang to ask why all the users had been logged off - luckily they'd
done a full backup the day before but downtime still cost a bit.
Then there's someone in my department who wrote a script for
auto-partitioning drives for test and accidentally ran it on the department
server's boot drive (easy mistake when you have multiple telnet sessions
open) - the machine continued to run but we were dreading the next power
cut that would be long enough to drain it's UPS. - which did eventually
happen and needed a reinstall to get it booting (luckily it's second drive
we use for data wasn't touched by the script).
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