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: What I want to know is if there is a way to recover from this, what can be  
: done for the UMSDOS fs in general, and is there any way I can avoid having  
: to go at it from scratch, ab initio, as they might say if they were latin,  
: etc.  Should I just forget this umsdos stuff until it is recoverable (or I  
: know how to recover from it }-))
: I would appreciate an email from anyone with constructive ideas asap.  

1) I have found booting from your original boot/root disks then mounting
   the partition.. sounds like to me your /etc/fstab is spazzed.  
   Recommendations for prevention are backing up your entire /etc area
   to disk (I have found in the instances that I have done the same
   thing all trace back to a faulty or miswritten file there.) then take
   from that disk if this occurs again.

2) The other thing it sounds like is that you either have a an old
   or buggy kernel. perhaps a clash with new patches and old drivers.
   The stablest kernel I have seen is 1.1.35, 1.1.44 is still too new.

3) Make a rootdisk to floppy (ref Linux Journal, #3 :'Disaster Recovery' 1994)

4) Minor but helpful precaution : alias rm 'rm -f' to your csh.login or
   profile.  This will prompt you with the 'Are you sure?' before deleting.
   Annoying, but better than spending an hour reinstalling.

                                                        StingrayE
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What I want to know is if there is a way to recover from this, what can be  
done for the UMSDOS fs in general, and is there any way I can avoid having  
to go at it from scratch, ab initio, as they might say if they were latin,  
etc.  Should I just forget this umsdos stuff until it is recoverable (or I  
know how to recover from it }-))

I would appreciate an email from anyone with constructive ideas asap.  
TIA,
Joe

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