techSunday, September 10, 2006
setback
Well, I guess I shouldn't have used the crashed harddrive - it's unreliable - it crashed again - reiserfs doesn't seem to be very tolerant of a bad drive.
So I'm reinstalling linux on suzie again. It wouldn't be so bad if I was using an easy to install distro like Ubuntu, but I'm using Gentoo, which compiles everything from source - it takes a while, but it's worth it. Just make sure that the harddrive is good first.
So I'm reinstalling linux on suzie again. It wouldn't be so bad if I was using an easy to install distro like Ubuntu, but I'm using Gentoo, which compiles everything from source - it takes a while, but it's worth it. Just make sure that the harddrive is good first.
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Also, the gentoo livecd isn't very tolerant of scratches - if it starts having problems accessing the cd, it's likely to totally lock up. Fortunately the cd is only required for first few steps - get a basic system bootable, then you can do everything else from within the new system itself - if you do this though, don't forget your ethernet drivers and dhcp client or you'll have to boot back into the livecd.
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