*sigh* Ask not for whom the bell tolls...
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cabbitzillaWell, I've been offline for all intents and purposes since the last entry. The primary drive in my workstation committed seppuku about twenty minutes after the earlier update.
A special 'bless you' shout out to Masque (bringer of warmth), Rowan (bringer of sanity), Ollie (the great furred 'gnawer of hardware'), Megan (for putting up with me), Doc L (for scaring the everlovin' stuff out of me), Sony (the marketers of the PSX that has been my console substitute), and SquareSoft (for FFT). With help and support from all of you, and others, I survived another December.
I'm dumping in this update now from the backup console, a rather pathetic little Win9x box with a fragged sound card. It's next on my list to be overhauled and retrofitted.
The four gig 'cuda (new) and four gig 'cropolis AV drives that showed up as a yule gift sit at my elbow, along with the Symbios S1365 UW card and cable that I inherited from a standalone upgrade I did about a year back; they're going to be the core of the rebuilt Mandrake box. I really wish I hadn't lost the prime drive, but I believe that the /root point was the secondary IDE drive, and it's still intact. With a bit of luck, my writings are intact, at least. And the venerable SCSI-I drive that is my mp3 collection should be safe. I just need to get things swapped around without Ollie trying to taste test everything. :p
So why'm I dragging my feet? *sigh* A long story, that. I'm half afraid of just how much of my technical skillbank is actually missing... a tally I'm not sure at all that I really want to know. :(
I... may put some of that information here. I'm really still trying to come to grips with the concept of having limitations of any sort; after 20+ years of being militantly self sufficient, the last year has been a fairly brutal change. We'll see. In the meantime, I think I'm just going to toss this up, and then open up the other box. Hopefully I still have enough left to get it back together...
A special 'bless you' shout out to Masque (bringer of warmth), Rowan (bringer of sanity), Ollie (the great furred 'gnawer of hardware'), Megan (for putting up with me), Doc L (for scaring the everlovin' stuff out of me), Sony (the marketers of the PSX that has been my console substitute), and SquareSoft (for FFT). With help and support from all of you, and others, I survived another December.
I'm dumping in this update now from the backup console, a rather pathetic little Win9x box with a fragged sound card. It's next on my list to be overhauled and retrofitted.
The four gig 'cuda (new) and four gig 'cropolis AV drives that showed up as a yule gift sit at my elbow, along with the Symbios S1365 UW card and cable that I inherited from a standalone upgrade I did about a year back; they're going to be the core of the rebuilt Mandrake box. I really wish I hadn't lost the prime drive, but I believe that the /root point was the secondary IDE drive, and it's still intact. With a bit of luck, my writings are intact, at least. And the venerable SCSI-I drive that is my mp3 collection should be safe. I just need to get things swapped around without Ollie trying to taste test everything. :p
So why'm I dragging my feet? *sigh* A long story, that. I'm half afraid of just how much of my technical skillbank is actually missing... a tally I'm not sure at all that I really want to know. :(
I... may put some of that information here. I'm really still trying to come to grips with the concept of having limitations of any sort; after 20+ years of being militantly self sufficient, the last year has been a fairly brutal change. We'll see. In the meantime, I think I'm just going to toss this up, and then open up the other box. Hopefully I still have enough left to get it back together...
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Drive Structures
Date: 2001-01-04 10:46 am (UTC)Re: Drive Structures
Date: 2001-01-04 06:45 pm (UTC)Are you going to keep the same drive in use for /home?
If not, probably best to mount it to /mnt/home or somesuch and then pick through it by hand and make sure as much as possible is safe, by copying each file to the new /home once it's been checked.
Oh! Try mounting it as read only too.. to prevent any chances of breaking it. :o)