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Skriven 2009-12-25 13:15:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROSS CASSELL
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-=> ROSS CASSELL wrote to ALL <=-

 RC> Hello All!

 RC> and not let it use you..

 RC> On my Linux Box, which runs my private reading node and the public
 RC> jamnntpd (Fido Via News) server, the primary hard drive was starting to
 RC> fail, I noted this last week and not having a spare EIDE hdd on hand (I
 RC> had a SATA one), I ordered a replacement, hoping that the failing drive
 RC> would hold out long enough.

 RC> I received the drive yesterday 12/24, but the failing drive gasped its
 RC> last breath way earlier that morning and as murphy would have it, I
 RC> wouldnt discover the failure until I was 30 minutes away from departing
 RC> for work.

 RC> I was able to boot to a Ubuntu LiveCD and amazingly enough I was able
 RC> to mount the ailing drive long enough to retrieve several key config
 RC> files, message base files and other stuff related to Fido.

 RC> I had hoped to use Acronis True Image to merely clone the old drive
 RC> onto the new, but that wouldnt work, so I knew a fresh install was
 RC> going to be in order.

 RC> I started the fresh install around 9 pm, had a working Linux System up
 RC> at 11pm, fully updated..

 RC> I even installed a proprietary Nvidia driver and the Desktop looks
 RC> good!

 RC> I just finished putting the server and this private reading node back
 RC> on..

 RC> all in less than 15 hours, with 8 hours sleep to boot.

 RC> So for all practical intents and purposes, I have returned online a
 RC> purposed Linux box in just over half a day.

 RC> and I am the newbie, right Wayne?

Ummm, I do it usually in in  4 1/2 hours.

However your advice caused such wreakage it took me
2 1/2 weeks before I could salvage anything useful.

No big deal, I anticipated as much.

Now if you'd kindly stop baiting me and stalking me
these last 14 years Merry Christmas.

For anyone reading over Ross's shoulder *any* change 
in any xorg.conf or XF86Config file causes
near total file system corruption when switching
from one Slack install to another due to the BIOS
conflict between the Nvidia and Mach 64.

The only safe way to have followed Mr. Cassell's _advice_
would to have copied over each and every video related BIOS configuration
is at the core of the nature of the conflict as in the IBM and Nvidia
resizing video memory allocation.

One reboot you're fine, do it again and about 
1/4 of your FS is corrupted.

You just couldn't even leave Christmas unsullied could you.



... He does the work of 3 Men...Breeze, Westley & Angelo.
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