Backup And Restore Procedures

13 Apr 2015 • programmingpraxis.com

Both the salesman at Micro Center and the printer manufacturer’s sales rep, who was in the store that day, assured me that the printer would work with my Debian Linux system, and the manufacturer’s sales rep even gave me the web page where I could download the driver. I bought the printer, took it home, and installed the driver.

It didn’t work. My computer would no longer boot. …

… At the point where the Linux installer asks you to specify the partition table, it told me that I had an invalid partition table and asked me to fix it, manually, before proceeding with the installation. Somehow, installing a printer driver corrupted the partition table.

WTF? Are you kidding me? Terrible. No words.