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By lylehsaxon (Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 01:43:45 PM EST) (all tags)
Another weekend working for the computer.  Typical deal - you figure you're going to spend a couple of hours upgrading an OS, and that couple of hours turns into a couple of days.  There's always something.  In this case I stupidly thought I'd do the lazy and quick [sarcastic and hysterical laughter] thing, and do an upgrade install from v7.10 to v8.04.

I knew better than to do such a thing (I'd tweaked the system too much for that to work, and it's not a good idea in general to do upgrade installs that (attempt to) take the OS across a major generational line anyway).

The result?  It could have been worse.  When the upgrade install failed (as I should have known it would), the system was a bit mucked up, but still functioning.  I (belatedly) thought "Okay - no prob!  I'll plug in an external USB hard drive, drop the files into that, and then do a clean install" - reformatting the hard drive and putting in v8.04 on a squeaky clean slate.

One problem though... the system no longer detected USB devices!  "Uuuu......." I think, while looking at my computer - knowing the files are sitting in the steel box, but not knowing how to get them out.  I fleetingly considered abandoning everything and just going ahead and wiping the hard drive, but irrational/impatient passion subsided and I decided to put the stuff I really wanted (needed?) to keep onto dual-layer DVD's in 8GB chunks and dump about 90GB of the 100GB of data (stuff that was already backed up - .tif images from Hubble, etc.).

If I hadn't put that DVD drive into the box after bringing it home from the used computer shop, I'm not sure what I would have done (learned command line stuff no doubt), but all's mostly happy that ends mostly happy I guess.

Next multi-hour batch of fun involved a glitch with the Adept Package Manager, which wasn't pulling in the list of available application software like it's supposed to.  It just unhelpfully showed the things already installed.  To make a too-long story a little bit longer, I finally figured out that was due to it's trying to pull in the file list from a bad source (or maybe not trying at all due to garbled text?).

After that was sorted out (it took me much longer than it should have to figure that one out), I had some setup problems with some applications I use, etc. etc.  Now I'm up and running, but there are still a number of things that I want to get set up and so the machine will continue to burn up time over the next week or so I imagine.

So how is Kubuntu v8.04?  Seems good so far.  I need to spend more time with it to know exactly what's what though.

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
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well by dev trash (2.00 / 0) #1 Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 02:36:11 PM EST
Least you had physical access to your box.  I stupidly upgraded my remote web server from v6.06 straight to v8.04.

I was lucky, it went without a hitch, but could have been bad, very bad.


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couple of hours turns into a couple of days by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #2 Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 08:07:26 AM EST
One reason I went with a Mac.

Aaaah. The fun of getting USB to work. <Old_Fart>Why, back in the old days, when Men were Men and so were the women, we had to compile USB drivers into the kernel. We wore onions on our belts...</Old_Fart> If you're going to run Linux, learn the command line. (Even on the Mac, it's extremely useful.) Especially helpful would've been "insmod", et alia.

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I know.... by lylehsaxon (2.00 / 0) #3 Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 08:27:40 AM EST
I know I should be learning to do thing via command line, but I feel like I'm loosing the battle against time to get things done as it is, and studying command line stuff ends up not getting first priority.  I envy the system administrators on the TLUG list - they're getting paid to know this stuff and can spend paid time on it every day.  In my case, I have to do this stuff in my personal time, of which I don't have so much.

All of that said, I did buy a book called "Linux Quick Fix Notebook" and I want to read it, but 95% of my reading time is on the one seven-minute train ride that I can actually sit down on, so it takes a long time to read anything, and this thick and heavy book would be sitting on my spine for two-and-a-half hours a day (daily standing time too far away from the seats to even put my backpack on the overhead rack) for months.

What else - I could abandon photography - that would open up some time, but I really don't want to abandon photography, so that's not an option.

Anyway, I'll try something!  I could just leave the wheel of the ship unattended and go down into the engine room, but the ship would end up on the rocks.  What to do, what to do....  I'll try something!

Lyle

The shortest way home is the longest way 'round....
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Two O'Reilly books you want by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #4 Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 09:11:40 AM EST
Running Linux.

Linux in a Nutshell.

You don't need to read them cover-to-cover (especially the Nutshell book as it's designed as a reference). Skimming through Running Linux would be helpful.

Just keep them next to your Linux box so they're handy when you need them.

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Thanks! by lylehsaxon (2.00 / 0) #5 Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 03:37:45 AM EST
I think I'll order those and take your advice by putting them by my Linux box.

Lyle

The shortest way home is the longest way 'round....
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