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Making Backups
Feb 22nd
Backups can be very important, no one wants to lose any of their data–especially if it has happened to you before.
I have previously setup my x64 desktop PC with softRAID, so everything I have in my /home folder is mirrored across 2 drives. However, I am not sure if I am overly paranoid, or maybe I just like to be extra secure because now I have implemented an additional backup measure.
It started when I read some of this stuff about backups and solutions, so I decided I should probably do something similar. The one from distrowatch really pushed me a long though, More >
Intel Wireless pains on a Sony VAIO (mirrorlist snafu part 2)
Feb 15th
As I mentioned in the last post, I re-installed Arch onto my laptop. This went very well, and quickly–everything really fell into place. I was going by the beginner’s guide, as detailed previously, but it was not really needed this time.
Where I left off last time, Xorg was installed and I was about to install Gnome. That went well enough, although I had to re-rank my mirrors and put the most updated first as there was some kind of discrepancy with some that had not been sync’ed in a few days.
I then started having problems with…wireless, of all things. It More >
doh! (mirrorlist snafu)
Feb 12th
So, I’ve been rolling along find with my Arch Linux installs. Well, almost. When I installed the system on my laptop, I had somehow forgotten the root password, but was still able to do everything with sudo.
However, I could not run rankmirrors with sudo, so I figured “hey, I can run rankmirrors on my desktop, and then copy that mirrorlist file over to the laptop”–good idea, right? Yeah…if your laptop and desktop are both the same architecture. My laptop is 32 bit, and my desktop is 64 bit. That did not work out so well, and I realized exactly what I More >
Inactivity
Nov 29th
Once again, it appears that life is being busy and getting in the way of online affairs. I haven’t really had the time (or creative desire) to update this site lately, but I’m sure I’ll get back into it at some point. Things wax and wane in life, that is just how it goes.
Some quick notes… (I may touch on some of these topics in more detail at a later time):
On the tech side of things:
- I am still using Arch Linux, on 2 of the 3 computers in my house (eeeBuntu on my wife’s eeePC). My softRAID setup is working More >
My adventure installing Linux on softRAID0/1 (part 3)
Sep 10th
I fiddled around with this for a while, and ALMOST had it working. However, on boot, my root RAID was not built, so boot would not continue. I’m pretty sure something is out of order somewhere in some setting, but as of yet I have not been able to figure this out.
So, I am still running on 1/2 of a RAID setup… on 64-bit Arch Linux, Loving it, as usual. Have gnome up and everything, and it went MUCH quicker this time, as I had done it previously (installing 32-bit version on my laptop). Actually, it went More >
My adventure installing Linux on softRAID0/1 (part 2)
Sep 4th
This is a continuation of Part 1.
After fiddling with Ubuntu and my RAID setup for a while, I got to thinking. After every upgrade I would run into this same issue, and would have to re-do the array create/build/assembly process while making sure the kernel was placed properly, as well as the initramfs.
So… combining that realization with my positive experience with Arch Linux, I decided to give up on Ubuntu and proceed forward using Arch. I have had no problems thus far with running Arch on my laptop, but on my desktop I will be much more focused on stability, rather than latest-and-greatest. More >
This month in Distro Hopping
Aug 17th
Well… running Arch Linux has put a halt to my distro hopping for now… I am totally happy with this distribution. I guess I will have to keep going, though, if I want to have anything to write about
Of everything I have tried so far, my top 3 favorites at this point in time are: 1. Arch 2. Ubuntu 3. Sabayon
*. Linux Mint — Still what I recommend to new users/converts
1. Arch is still pretty amazing to me, at least enough to be #1 this time! It is simple, but complicated at the same time, but upgrades are a snap and More >
Review: Arch Linux (2009.02)
Aug 8th
I was going to review sidux next, but Arch has really been tempting me. In the last week or so I had tried to install Arch a couple of times in a Virtualbox instance on my desktop (running Ubuntu) –however this did not yield positive results.
Or more descriptively, the live cd would boot, and the install process would proceed normally and then stall once completed. After a little searching, I realized this was due to an incompatibility between the 2.6.30 kernel and Virtualbox. So naturally, I decided the only way to proceed was an actual install.
Firstly, I most definitely recommend making good More >
