aftermath of an ubuntu installation

[Donny George]

well i have filed a bug.


*i would like to thank one and all for the all help tha tyou poured in for a
distressed user like me. *

THANKYOU SO MUCH , SPECIAL THANKS TO Nils as well, you were just great
buddy, with you around may be i can afford some mistakes after all :)

don


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Donny George wrote:
> > i did sudo mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
> >
> > and it says
> >
> > /dev/hda5 looks like a swap space-not mounted.
> > you must specify the filesystem
> >
> > i also did fdisk to verify the filetype of hda5 , its ntfs in it.
>
> OK, then I think you have lost your data. Obviosly the partition really
> has been formatted as swap space during the installation for whatever
> reason. I think you should file a bug at
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+filebug>. Just in case somebody else has
> an idea, you should better not change anything on the hda5 partition. But
> frankly, I don't have much hope.
>
>
> Nils
>
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