🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <vc39f8.kc.ln@faichney.demon.co.uk>, Robin Faichney
<robin@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>I run SuSE 6.2 and Win98 on this box, and I just trashed /opt!  I was
>mucking about (obviously), and formatted the wrong drive in Windows.
>In my efforts to recover the situation, the partition has since
>been abortively type changed from FAT to ext2, deleted, recreated as
>unformatted by Partition Magic 3 and deleted again.  (That sequence
>may not be accurate -- I probably lost track.)  Eventually I managed to
>boot normally after commenting out the appropriate line in /etc/fstab,
>but of course I've lost loads of stuff -- eg I'm currently using fvwm2
>instead of kwm -- and until I get tape backup arranged, I backup only
>home directories and /etc.  Is there any way the data could be recovered?
>If not, any suggestions as to the easiest way to get back to square 1?
>Of course, I never bothered to save the installed packages configuration
>in yast.  :-(

Unfortunately, I don't think so :(

Windoze format is not the most destructive tool M$ have supplied (I
believe that honour goes to "setup.exe" on the win95 CD), I have
recovered from an accidental "format c:" more than once by resetting the
computer.  However, if the format actually completed there is a good
chance that the data is gone for good.

IIRC SuSE uses the RPM format invented by Red Hat so it shouldn't be too
hard to get the relevant packages back into the computer, if it reckons
it's already installed, read the man page and tell it to "force"
installation which just goes blind and copies the files anyway.

TB               Busby the Cat 1984 - 22.9.1999