Journal intermodal's Journal: Death of data 10
In what marks a first for me (yes, I know this will sound like a lie) I had a hard drive die on me. Yes, I've had hard drives go bad before, but never have I had one suddenly quit in its entirety, especially with loud nasty sounding noises. I think one of the read arms just decided to fall off or something. being my laptop drive, naturally its a pain in the arse. I'm running on my spare 4 GB (as opposed to the 30 that died), with my spare 10 coming back on the weekend from my father in law. Running mandrake 9.0 as a stopgap, and plan to reinstall Gentoo, with a potential dual distro boot if mandrake seems to be worth keeping around. Any mandrake users out there want to share some tips? I'm just now finishing adding urpmi sources, but i don't know the ins and outs of the system. I'm no fan of RPM based distros in general, but I figure as long as i'm playing with it for the week I may as well learn a thing or two.
Ximian (Score:1)
It's worth trying at least once.
And keep checking your security settings. I think it was '7' that would keep resetting them.
Other than that, it's a handy little distro.
BTW, what about Slackware?
Re:Ximian (Score:2)
Ouch (Score:1)
Thats really unfortunate, I hope you had backups!! Was the drive a Maxtor or Fujitsu by any chance?
By the way: although data loss is never a laughing matter, I thought your journal entry was a reference to Star Trek: Nemesis. :)
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apt for RPM (Score:1)
I'm running Gentoo now and really enjoying the speed increase. It has forced me to acknowledge greater ignorance of how the Linux desktop works t
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To make your life a bit easier (if you have a 'server' to do it with, copy the install CD's to a server where you can http or ftp export the area to make it much easier than swapping CD's for your urpmi datasource.
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