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Skriven 2010-01-31 15:11:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: Re: it's a gas, gas, gas
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

Hello Maurice!

 MK> Hey Wayne!


 MK> Data on plastic spinney thingies are data on plastic spinney
 MK>  thingies.

 > Not the same as audio CDs though, or am I mistaken?

 MK> You're right.  Same can be said for DVD movies.  Also the CD movie
 MK> format which I believe were the first avi format but don't quote me on
 MK> that.

 > Yup and CHEAP too.
 > I was at Walmart a while back and they had a 16 Gig Sandisk
 > for $22 U.S. and I darned near snagged it.

 MK> Be careful with that as my neighbour snagged some from there and I had
 MK> to dd them before they would work.  I don't trust them.  The higher
 MK> quality ones are usually ~30-40 USD for 8G.

This was a Sandisk, reputed to be one of the better brands.


 > I don't however know if USB 1.1 is plug and play

 MK> Yes but not bootable.

Wrong questuion I realised after uploading.
What I meant to inquire was is USB 1.1 hot swappable?


 > it'd serve as a rescue option if it remained plugged up.

 MK> Right.  Originally I did simular with CF disks in a pcmcia slot. Worked
 MK> really good too.

 > Some of my best command line education comes from daring to risk,
 > occassional royal screwups and then getting it right.

 MK> Sounds extremely familiar.  My latest foray has been with qemu-kvm and
 MK> hotswapping a virtualized 2thingsInk-i386 sata drive.  Managed to get

Yup, there ya go over my head again, for now.

I do however archive most of your posts on technique. 

My all time best foulup?
Knoppix rm defaults to  rm -i without your having to issue it at the command
line
so you can imagine what happened when I issued the command rm -r -f / in Slack
expecting to answer N until it hit the proper directory.

Zip bang bye bye to the operating system. 

 MK> it all working about 3 or 4 hours ago including vituallized graphics
 MK> (framebuffer), sound and networking.  Tested it by building mplayer to
 MK> make sure that the phoney-baloney hardware was detected and mplayer
 MK> built accordingly.  It did. It thinks it can do fbdev2 which was
 MK> important for targetting eeepc machines and the like.

 MK> Installed the first virtuallized 2thingsInk using the new fangled
 MK> ttylinux_ng (unofficial) I built using flash-ttylinux-i386.  Looks to
 MK> be a handy thing to have thus far.

I've got to go looking for that or download it again as it's possible I lost it
with a partition.
No big deal, it'll go on hdb4 which is too small for Slack but rather roomy for
your flash-ttylinux.

After I get everything here squared away with regards to other partitions.
Should be quite soon as I gather installation from ISO on the hard drive merely
consists
of loop mounting the ISO, extracting and installing bzimage and initrd.img into
/boot
then modifying lilo.conf to point to those files rather than the old 12.2
files, boot
and setup.

Reducing the modules to only reflect my existing hardware to shrink the bzimage
can await another
day. 

 > Currently with 8 partitions across two physical drives it'd take
 > a pretty massive foulup to lose everything.

 MK> Yeah especially if one of the drives isn't mounted automagically but is
 MK> there for manual mounting when backing up the main root/boot drive.

Exactly how I do it and for that very reason.

BTW, do NOT leave a loop mounted ISO file sitting overnight as some routine
maintanance,
I've no idea what, that seems to take place all on its own at something like
4:30 in the morning
utterly corrupted the file I used to loop mount.

As this was a 3.7 GIG file I'd be rather annoyed but for the fact I copied it
to one of
the partitions not mounted in fstab.

Actually I'll have quite a few more partitions than eight as I just set aside
hda4 as one big
extended partition of over 40 Gig, actually too big per the system to mkfs on.
I'll carve that up once I resolve other issues. 

 MK> Speaking of which I should make a backup of the new fangled hot
 MK> swapping virtual drive that contains both ttylinux_ng-i386 and
 MK> flash-ttylinux-i386 ramdisks that can be booted from a usb or sata
 MK> port(s).  Roughly 12G worth soaking wet.  Should all fit onto a 16M
 MK> flash disk including all the source.  ;-)

If you make it available you can be certain I'll download it.

Oh that other Linux I spoke of trying is actually named Tiny Core Linux.

I've absolutely no interest in Ubuntu, Knoppix, Debian, Suse, Mandrake or
others
however I may test run Ubuntu in order to assist others in making the switch.

There's also Phoenix Linux a release the local computer shop owner personally
put together to swing Windows users over to Linux.

If he doesn't want an arm and a leg for it I may have a look at that, again
to assist others in moving to Linux.


Have a great day. 

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