DSL is a GREAT tool
Forum: User Feedback
Topic: DSL is a GREAT tool
started by: cheapskate Dave
Posted by cheapskate Dave on Oct. 13 2004,08:31
I just want to thank the guys that made this happen.I was upgrading a PC for a friend, he had a 30g in there then bought a 120g and brought it to me to install.
He's running Suse 9.0 Pro and I'm going to upgrade it to 9.1 Pro after the drive copy is over. Anyway......
I installed the 120gig drive and wanted to copy ALL of his home directory stuff to the new drive so I could reformat the 30g and use it strictly as the OS drive and the 120g strictly as his home drive.
The 30g is hda and the 120g is hdb..
When you go to install Suse, it does NOT give you the option to shuffle your data around before formatting and installing the OS.
So, I booted Knoppix 3.6 to do it.
Nope. No go. I did open a terminal and formated the new drive for ext3 but that was ALL I could do. I did go and uncheck the READ ONLY option on the hdb1 icon on the desktop but it still refused to let me write to it.
So I booted a half dozen other versions of Linux to try to do this and nothing worked. Most stuff would complain that it couldn't find the drives in fstab.
So, I dug some more and found an old DSL 3.11 biz card I burned a long time ago. I remembered that DSL DOES allow me RW access to drives so I ran to my main machine, downloaded the latest version, 0.8.2 and burned it to a fresh biz card. I booted it on the machine, opened a terminal, ran mc and BAM! I'm copying EVERYTHING, hidden files and all from the old 30g to the new 120g.
It's going to take a while to copy all the files this way but when it's done, everything will be exactly as I want it to be.
DSL pulled my bacon out of the pan, again. I'm super happy and super impressed. This is one of the very best tools a tech can carry.
This is one of those "Don't leave home without it!" things...
And as a big bonus to me, I saw a section on some folks that use DSL on 386 and 486 machines. Damn, I have about 100 old machines, now I have something I can throw on those dino's to make them useful once again. I can set them up and sell them as super cheap Internet terminals. Now I wish I hadn't given away all those 13" crt's!
Thanks very much to the DSL folks for one of the best tools I've ever come across!
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Posted by davide on Oct. 13 2004,15:00
and if you can't sell them out, you can give the rest to charities or non-profit organizations...a living pc is always better than trash...there's some post out there about charities and giving new life to old 486(just suggesting)
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Oct. 13 2004,15:05
Welcome to the Revolution!!!-J.P.
SaidinUnleashed