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Sector11 · 2014-05-03 18:08:16

CSCoder4ever wrote:

Well I've got nothing to lose now. might need to attempt it.

I dual boot #! » SID and CB they both look identical, use the same conkys too, I have my all my personal stuff on /media/5 accessible by both. If SID ever crashes I'll use CB until I get SID back up and running. And since both have separate /home's I just need to

install and format / and
reuse /home and /media/5

When I add a personal app - I add it to my ~/bin/ainstall so anything that isn't OOTB is there (if I keep it updated):

ainstall

#!/bin/bash
# Sector11's list
#  With Debian SID:
#  dlume umplayer yad qasmixer ceni kernel-remover
#
echo 'apt get is about to install -- THE list! ---'
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ack-grep apt-listbugs apt-rdepends alsa-base {snip snip snip} vnstat wbritish-insane wcanadian-insane weblint-perl wmctrl xfburn xsane dlume umplayer yad qasmixer ceni kernel-remover &&
echo ''
echo 'Press ANY key to create vnstat database (eth0)'
read key
sudo vnstat -u -i eth0 &&
echo ''
echo 'Press a key to continue with sensors-detect'
echo 'Answer YES to everything!'
echo ''
read key
sudo sensors-detect
echo ''
echo 'Press a key to configure hddtemp'
echo 'Answer: Yes, 0, Yes, OK, OK'
echo ''
read key
sudo dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp
echo ''
read key
echo 'crystalcursors: number 7'
echo ''
sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
echo ''
echo 'Done'
echo 'Any key to exit'
read key
exit

makes it a little less painless.

Maybe I should rename that so s11-welcome because I got the idea from cb-welcome cool

damo · 2014-05-03 20:08:50

Turns out I borked my Debian Jessie install last night,

Having been known to do that quite a lot myself, FWIW here is my strategy:

1) Have a small partition with a vanilla waldorf (saves messing with a live disc), install fsarchiver and a script to do the cloning.
2) Boot to this spare partition, savefs my main installation with fsarchiver to another drive.
3) Create borkage as necessary.
4) Restore my main system by booting into the spare one and restfs

The beauty of this method is that it saves having to learn lots and lots about how everything works big_smile

Sector11 · 2014-05-03 20:47:21

damo wrote:

Having been known to do that quite a lot myself, FWIW here is my strategy:
1) Have a small partition with a vanilla waldorf (saves messing with a live disc), install fsarchiver and a script to do the cloning.
2) Boot to this spare partition, savefs my main installation with fsarchiver to another drive.
3) Create borkage as necessary.
4) Restore my main system by booting into the spare one and restfs
The beauty of this method is that it saves having to learn lots and lots about how everything works

I like learning how things work, mind you a lot of times I have to re-learn what I have re-learned and still say, " WoW, Nice I have to remember this." ... but a simple recovery sounds GOOD!

I have one HDD so booting to another disk isn't possible. I have been very leery of compressed archive files since I've had a few 'backup programs' that used compression fail on me.

a script to do the cloning can you share please. (maybe a new thread)

3) Create borkage as necessary. - totally lost me with this.

damo · 2014-05-03 21:04:15

Sector11 wrote:

a script to do the cloning can you share please. (maybe a new thread)

Just a couple of lines to mount a drive and run the fsarchiver command

3) Create borkage as necessary. - totally lost me with this.

big_smile Do whatever you need to do to bork the installation, and have to reinstall the filesystem!

Sector11 · 2014-05-03 21:33:39

damo wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
3) Create borkage as necessary. - totally lost me with this.
Do whatever you need to do to bork the installation, and have to reinstall the filesystem!

You serious? As in do it ¿on purpose?

Or are you saying accidentally as in a day to day "Oops!" I've been known do have a few of those.

can you not:

fsarchiver savefs /media/sector11/disk/M5.fsa /media/5

nope ...

 03 May 14 | 18:31:26 ~
    $ sudo fsarchiver savefs /media/sector11/disk/M5.fsa /media/5
[sudo] password for sector11: 
oper_save.c#1155,oper_save(): /media/5 is not a valid block device
 
 03 May 14 | 18:31:38 ~
    $ sudo fsarchiver savefs /media/sector11/disk/M5.fsa /dev/sda5
oper_save.c#939,filesystem_mount_partition(): partition [/dev/sda5] is mounted read/write. please mount it read-only 
and then try again. you can do "mount -o remount,ro /dev/sda5". you can 
also run fsarchiver with option '-A' if you know what you are doing.
removed /media/sector11/disk/M5.fsa
 
 03 May 14 | 18:31:58 ~
    $

CSCoder4ever · 2014-05-03 23:37:11

welp made matters worse for myself. lol ops

Still got 3 weeks of college though, so this fix will more than likely need to wait. cry

lesson learned though. glasses

Sector11 · 2014-05-04 04:11:28

CSCoder4ever wrote:

welp made matters worse for myself. lol
Still got 3 weeks of college though, so this fix will more than likely need to wait.
lesson learned though.

Install #! beside #! and have a dual boot system one to use ... and one as a back up. big_smile

CSCoder4ever · 2014-05-04 04:19:19

Sector11 wrote:

Install #! beside #! and have a dual boot system one to use ... and one as a back up.

I sorta already do though, #! and Arch ( albiet not completely installed just yet ) monkey

For sure though, I'll definitely have a #! as backup tongue

damo · 2014-05-04 09:14:11

@Sector11

No, of course I wasn't being serious about deliberately messing up my system big_smile

There is already a fsarchiver backup/restore HowTo, but do you think it's worth me posting another with the method I use?

Sector11 · 2014-05-04 14:46:47

damo wrote:

@Sector11
No, of course I wasn't being serious about deliberately messing up my system
There is already a fsarchiver backup/restore HowTo, but do you think it's worth me posting another with the method I use?

Honestly I didn't think so but it sounded like it might have been. Something I'd do. "Say, I wonder what would happen if ... ? ... OOPS!"

OK got it .. no, that's fine. I now return you to your regular GIMPing session.. cool

jdonaghy · 2014-05-04 15:15:26

I just ran the OpenIndiana LiveCD, and as it booted and reported on my CPU, it spouted "found 56 cores". That would be a little funnier if it weren't so mean. tongue

damo · 2014-05-04 15:20:29

My lunch box has 2 cores in it now

jdonaghy · 2014-05-04 15:34:05

damo wrote:

My lunch box has 2 cores in it now

I prefer tangerines.

CSCoder4ever · 2014-05-04 15:46:29

4 of my boxes have 4 or more threads.

Alad · 2014-05-05 01:25:07

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/02 … ting_scam/

Karma. angel

#!_828 · 2014-05-05 15:08:08

jdonaghy wrote:

damo wrote:
My lunch box has 2 cores in it now
I prefer tangerines.

Oddly enough, I have two clementines in my lunch today lol

@Alad, JUSTICE!

twoion · 2014-05-06 10:38:53

I won't have time over the summer for my favourite hobby :-( The period of less coding always starts around May.

Sector11 · 2014-05-06 14:39:49

@ twoion

Maybe so, but think of the fresh ideas you'll have when you get back to it.

Keep a small notebook and pencil handy. wink

CSCoder4ever · 2014-05-06 14:55:23

Sector11 wrote:

@ twoion
Maybe so, but think of the fresh ideas you'll have when you get back to it.
Keep a small netbook and pencil handy.

Fixed that for you! devil

And I fixed that for you! lol lol lol

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jdonaghy · 2014-05-07 09:43:03

Why do people feel the need to upload files with names like pfgroundhog_of_austria_theme_v2.48568686-revision3.5-4ab16byautomator101-automator101atgmaildotcom.tar.bz2 ?

Last edited by jdonaghy (2014-05-07 09:44:48)

Unia · 2014-05-07 11:46:36

jdonaghy wrote:

Why do people feel the need to upload files with names like pfgroundhog_of_austria_theme_v2.48568686-revision3.5-4ab16byautomator101-automator101atgmaildotcom.tar.bz2 ?

Because they are auto-generated?

gutterslob · 2014-05-07 11:55:09

Austria has groundhogs?!

jdonaghy · 2014-05-07 12:00:52

Lol. Both good answers. I honestly hadn't thought of them being auto-generated. Just so much to type at times. neutral

boisei0 · 2014-05-07 19:36:21

Just finished the configuration of my new sound card (Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD) on Gentoo. Windows was easy: insert cd, press install -> next -> next -> finish. Gentoo was reconfiguring/recompiling the kernel with support for extra modules, emerging some more alsa packages, a couple of reboots and lots of messing with alsamixer and pavucontrol. Did not change a single line of configuration to get it working smile I do only have a borked install of Waldorf installed, so I didn't try it there.

twoion · 2014-05-08 03:14:18

The new installment of the Firefox Developer Tools in Aurora adds, among many other things, an option to copy HTTP requests from the network monitor as a curl command! Scripting web pages using shell script instead of js (via GreaseMonkey) just became much more convenient. *feel good*

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