Re: Clone redhat 9 to larger disk; part 3, Eureka!
From: Ohmster (notareal_at_emailaddress.com)
Date: 04/12/05
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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:06:48 GMT
"Jason L. Woodruff" <damnspamhasalreadygotme@spam.net> wrote in
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Hi Jason,
Gosh, you are like "a friend" already. That's cool.
> LOL! Yeah, this website is very incomplete (intentionally). That was
> more of a test than anything.
>
> < Samba page looks good.
>
> Thank you. Actually that is very badly out of date. Samba is alot
> easier to setup than that now.
Mmmm. Well I tell ya, samba was not that easy to setup back in the day. I
got mine working really well but it was not easy when I did it, it was a
real project, but a fun and rewarding project. You could touch it up a
bit and modernize it, if you have the time, but leave the basic "how to
do it all" page as there are many linux users that come to linux because
they have an old Pentium laying around that is just of no use in this day
and age of very large files and broadband. These folks hate to throw away
the old computer, especially when they paid a lot for it at the time. So,
they want to do something useful with it and often times the user will
pick an older version of linux because of the hardware requirements. Even
a very old, low powered computer makes a Jim Dandy file and print server
for any home or small LAN. If it is a real low power, low memory machine,
the installer is encouraged to skip the x server (Yeah I know, that is a
really hard point to make with a new linux user.) and just go for a CLI
server unit. Put a printer on it and share it out to the network, and
then anyone can print right to the printer from anywhere in the house.
This is especially important when the user has a wireless network for the
laptop, now they can print out reports or recipes from out on the lawn
chair. The user can put a very large, bargain hard drive in the unit and
it makes a great file server, just put all of your archive, big stuff on
there and it don't take up your "real hard drive" space, yet it is
immediately available to anyone on the network. This is absolutely the
best thing to do with an old, outdated computer. Heck, when I bought my
PII 400Mhz computer with 1Gb of SDRAM and 21" monitor, I paid three
thousand five hundred dollars for it! The machine is grossly underpowered
for todays applications and especially for games, so I got new ones
since. Built them myself and got the stuff at the computer show. But
still, I don't have it in my heart to throw out the old machine. I have
since upgraded it to a PIII 800Mhz Coppermine and upped the RAM to 1.5Gb,
but it is still too underpowered for me today. *That* machine, *is* my
beloved redhat linux server/gateway/firewall.
>> What would be totally excellent, if you have the time, is to make
>> your disk copy and samba pages indexed at the top. Each line of the
>> index would have a URL to a named anchor on the page. So for me to
>> find the grub portion of your copy page, I could click on the grub
>> line and go right to that section.
>
> I couldn't agree more! You are correct, that needs to have some
> indexing. It would help the reader more. I appreciate the suggestion.
> I'll try to work on that in the future. Time is factor, as it is with
> many.
Yeah the indexing would be easy to do if you pop the page into
Dreamweaver. I love Dreamweaver and use it all the time. It makes things
so easy and it does not add or alter your code like Front Page will.
Heck, just opening an HTML document and saving it again without doing
anything will kill your scripts on Front Page. I will never use Front
Page again for this reason. If you are a die hard linux fan, there is a
wysiwyg editor, similar to Dreamweaver (Well, not really but it is a
wysiwyg editor.) that you can download for free, here:
At the top of the how-to page, you put like 5-10 title lines and
highlight them in DW or Nvu, and put in the named anchor points. Then at
the specific points in the doc, you add the named anchor tags and they
are invisible. Very easy to do with DW and with Nvu too, I would imagine.
Your docs are totally excellent and concise, but you might want to give a
time saver option on the docs, like mention that Ghost will copy the
drives properly and will save a great deal of time with disk copying, all
one has to do afterwards is to add the grub loader. Yeah it is a
commercial product but it will work and it will do it quickly, if one
needs that kind of time element. I think that you can download Ghost as
trial ware and use it to get the job done, not sure though, see the link:
http://www.downseek.com/download/4401.asp
Other products like Drive Image will do it as well, and Partition Magic
too, although it is a bit more pain in the ass to copy each partition
over rather than just ghost the drive. And for samba, you could update
that a little in an update section for modern linux versions, but keep
the original drive copy and samba pages as they are very good, for those
that want to know or have older versions on hand.
Yeah I know, I know, who has the time. Well, sooner or later, you might
have the time. The anchor links could be done in like 15 minuets with
Dreamweaver and Nvu so that is not so bad.
>> So you are a counterstrike player? This is not the new one that comes
>> with Half Life 2, is it?
>
> Yes it is. I love playing Counter-Strike! Unfortuantly, I really suck
> at it! I love mapping too, but talking about time-consuming. That map
> download on my website is out-of-date too! Thanks for checking it out!
You are talking the original Counter-Strike, right? I have not played
that in a long time, might have to give the new one a try that comes with
Half Life 2, Counter Strike Source. My nephew went out and bought the
game again after forgetting the password on it, just so that he could
play Counter Strike Source, he never even played Half Life 2 all the way
or even half way through. Do you play Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield
1942, and especially the new mods for them like Point Of Existence or the
old Desert Combat mod? OMFG, they are so good, Desert Combat freaking
kicks stinking behind, dude! I have not had the time to play the new
Point Of Existence one yet but it looks very good, fly modern jet
aircraft and whoop behind. What is good about the battlefield games and
mods is that you can fly, drive, or pilot just about anything in the
game, even the big battleships, and use the weapons and that the flying
is not so freaking hard like real flight sim games. You can just jump
into a jet and fly over enemy territory and fire away with rockets,
missiles, and guns! And it is not hard to fly them, very much fun and
excitement there, dude. The helicopters are hard for me, I always crash
them in like 30 seconds for some reason.
Hah, back when Counter-Strike was really hot, my wife and I were playing
it and she joined an online game. The game was an added on map and while
she was playing, she went into an area that was strewn with open Playboy
magazines scattered on the ground. She got offended and never played
since. :P
She wanted "clean" games so I got her Harry Potter, how much cleaner can
you get than that? She played about 15 minutes until she realized that
the game was a bunch of repetitious "jumping, getting killed, try again"
stuff, like the Tomb Raider games, and that was the end of that. I loved
Lara Croft but even that go to be too much with jump, miss, get killed,
try again stuff so I quit the Lara stuff after that and never finished
the game after making it 3/4 of the way through in TR4, the first one to
come out with "really good graphics".
>> I am just so freaking happy about my server being updated now with
>> larger hard disks.
>
> I'm glad you got it done!
>
>> Nice talking to you, gotta go to work now. See ya!
>
> You too! Don't work(ed) to hard! Now I'm off to work!
K, gotta go now, take care Jason.
-- ~Ohmster ohmster at newsguy dot com
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