5:51 p.m.
My youngest daughter has Windows Vista Home Basic on her laptop.
Yesterday it died on her with all of her college work held on there
:-( So, as usual it was a case of "dad, can you sort this?" No
amount of coaxing with system restore or emergency disks worked. So,
I pooped in the Ubuntu 8.10 disk and fired that up. Fan bloody
tastic!!! Why didn't I do this to start with? I just plugged an
external HD in and transferred all of her files onto that. Next job
is to wipe this pile of dog do off and put a slightly better pile of
dog do on. She wants XP on it.... these young 'uns never learn.
Anyway, as always, Linux came to the rescue... yippee :-)
Just thought I'd share this with you all.
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5:56 p.m.
Kevanf1 wrote:
My youngest daughter has Windows Vista Home Basic on her laptop.
Yesterday it died on her with all of her college work held on there
:-( So, as usual it was a case of "dad, can you sort this?" No
amount of coaxing with system restore or emergency disks worked. So,
I pooped in the Ubuntu 8.10 disk and fired that up. Fan bloody
tastic!!! Why didn't I do this to start with?
ntfsclone is the next tool to use
make a copy of the hard disk in case there is other stuff on there that
you missed
then load 8.10 and boot the Vista in KVM - Now you've got control...
6:43 p.m.
2009/3/1 Simon Faulkner <simon(a)titanic.co.uk>:
ntfsclone is the next tool to use
make a copy of the hard disk in case there is other stuff on there that
you missed
then load 8.10 and boot the Vista in KVM - Now you've got control...
Right now I am giving it a rest. I have been staring at a computer
screen all day with the added pressure of "dad can do it"... You now
what I mean...
ntfsclone? Sounds like an open source form of Norton Ghost?
I did try to persuade her to have Ubuntu 8.10 installed.... yeah
right. My eldest daughter would have jumped at it but this the
youngest we are talking about.
Right, time to rest :-)
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Kevan Farmer
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6:48 p.m.
I do that sort of thing regularly. One tip I can share for really
extreem circumstances (you think the drive is about to die) is to boot
the machine from usb or optical drive (toram is best if you have
enough ram). Take an image of the disk to a file on an external
storage device using ddrescue (not dd). You can then mount the image
using the -o loop option in mount and read from the image.
Or.. image to another drive of the same or larger capacity and use that.
Bingo!
Chris.
2009/3/1 Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com>:
My youngest daughter has Windows Vista Home Basic on her laptop.
Yesterday it died on her with all of her college work held on there
:-( So, as usual it was a case of "dad, can you sort this?" No
amount of coaxing with system restore or emergency disks worked. So,
I pooped in the Ubuntu 8.10 disk and fired that up. Fan bloody
tastic!!! Why didn't I do this to start with? I just plugged an
external HD in and transferred all of her files onto that. Next job
is to wipe this pile of dog do off and put a slightly better pile of
dog do on. She wants XP on it.... these young 'uns never learn.
Anyway, as always, Linux came to the rescue... yippee :-)
Just thought I'd share this with you all.
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire
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7:23 p.m.
You sir, have no shame.
Andrew Edwards wrote:
> right. My eldest daughter would have jumped at it but this the
> youngest we are talking about.
>
>
i'll take the eldest one's number off-list ;))
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7:12 a.m.
Andrew Edwards wrote:
2009/3/1 Tom Hill <tom(a)ninjabadger.net>:
> You sir, have no shame.
>
>
gotta be in it to win it...
or something less vulgar!
I'm sure that Andrew only wants to discuss the KDE/Gnome argument?
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9:17 a.m.
2009/3/2 Simon Faulkner <simon(a)titanic.co.uk>:
Andrew Edwards wrote:
> 2009/3/1 Tom Hill <tom(a)ninjabadger.net>:
>
>> You sir, have no shame.
>>
>>
> gotta be in it to win it...
>
>
> or something less vulgar!
>
>
>
I'm sure that Andrew only wants to discuss the KDE/Gnome argument?
Well that's all she will discuss with him :-) She's erm, how do I put
this? Not into men.....She's also about 7 yrs older than Andrew :-)
but then he may be into more senior women ;-) and why not...
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9:54 a.m.
Well that's all she will discuss with him :-) She's erm, how
do I put
this? Not into men.....She's also about 7 yrs older than Andrew :-)
but then he may be into more senior women ;-) and why not...
Andy just wants a girl who can install Gentoo...
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10:56 a.m.
2009/3/2 Andrew Edwards <andrew(a)andrewedwards.name>:
> My youngest daughter has Windows Vista Home Basic on her laptop.
how old did you say she was?
17 coming 18... and NO! :-) She's too interested in her college
work at the moment (forensic science). The last lad that asked her
out she ended up chucking up all over :-) Drastic way of saying
bugger off but there you go. A touch too much Jack Daniels that
night.
Oh, my eldest daughter could probably easily install Gentoo. She
works at Cannock College in the IT department and eulogises about
Linux at every opportunity.
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11:05 a.m.
Oh, my eldest daughter could probably easily install Gentoo. She
works at Cannock College in the IT department and eulogises about
Linux at every opportunity.
*Now* you're talking!
She any good with KVM?
(Struggling this am :-()
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1:56 p.m.
2009/3/2 Simon Faulkner <simon(a)titanic.co.uk>:
> Oh, my eldest daughter could probably easily install Gentoo. She
> works at Cannock College in the IT department and eulogises about
> Linux at every opportunity.
>
*Now* you're talking!
She any good with KVM?
(Struggling this am :-()
Doubtful. She's more like me, an enthusiastic end user.
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2:01 p.m.
I have been playing with KVM here, I have Proxmox on a couple of
servers for testing at the moment and it is looking good so far :)
What problems are you having? (That is if no-one minds interupting
the riviting account of Andrew's search for a girl with a pulse :) )
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Simon Faulkner <simon(a)titanic.co.uk> wrote:
> Oh, my eldest daughter could probably easily install Gentoo. She
> works at Cannock College in the IT department and eulogises about
> Linux at every opportunity.
>
*Now* you're talking!
She any good with KVM?
(Struggling this am :-()
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4:29 p.m.
What problems are you having? (That is if no-one minds interupting
the riviting account of Andrew's search for a girl with a pulse :) )
no, no problem... the mrs will be back home to satisfy needs in about
5 mins anyway! lol
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