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   Dave Yeo to All   
   Re: advice on hardware purchase   
   11 Feb 11 07:18:57   
   
   Firefox/4.0b11 SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre   
   .linux.misc:19345 comp.os.os2.ecomstation:843   
   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   Alex Taylor wrote:   
   > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:22:37 UTC, Dave Yeo  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
   >>>> I tried to install the latest Ubuntu, being very careful to do all my   
   >>>> partitioning ahead of time. It still did something nasty to my   
   >>>> partition tables.   
   >>>   
   >>> Do you know what?   
   >>   
   >> Seems to have screwed up the LVM info. The guilvm complains about   
   >> incorrect partitioning information and shows blank space where I have   
   >> partitions. Also tries to reassign drive letters that I'm using. Using   
   >> DFsee can cause a trap E in lvm.   
   >> Everything was fine when I created partitions to install Ubuntu into. I   
   >> was careful to tell Ubuntu not to format yet every disk it touched ended   
   >> up corrupted and all it took was an existing swap partition for Ubuntu   
   >> to touch the drive.   
   >   
   > This may be related: http://bugs.ecomstation.nl/view.php?id=2914   
   >   
      
   Seems that I can't view the bug without an eCS userid.   
   Dave   
      
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