[frgeek-michiana] Re: From the Gooselab
- From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:35:55 -0400
Re (5) below. Try "su -" instead of "su" or "su root". The hyphen puts you
in the root directory and also loads root's PATH variable, which should give
you the search paths root needs. Works on Slack and VL.
Tom
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[mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Zimmerman
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:53 PM
To: Free Geek Michiana
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] From the Gooselab
1) First project today, re-start installing CentOS on the laptop and get
a working install - Done
2) Exchange out hard drives on home server: - Done
A) dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
a. It worked and didn't work. It copied a workable boot sector
and the partition table but the partitions themselves were not usable.
b. Blew out partition table and re-created it and formated swap
and / filesystems
c. Tar'd /dev/hda1 to new drive, then tar -zxvf it on the new drive
d. Rebooted the system, bingo, it works!
NOTE: All of this was on in Debian runlevel 1 - single user mode,
all services shutdown
B) Copied the data drive doing the same thing in steps b & c
3) Tried to reset the wireless access point to use the cable modem
directly so I wasn't flying blind. Succeeded in trashing it. Factory
reset to come.
In process - I need the hub side of it at the moment
4) Compaq Battery - Mike and I have what looked like two good
batteries. So far so good - ran 1 hr showing 74% remaining.
5) CentOS on a laptop. Might be ok for some people, as a wireless based
laptop. Not so good.
a. Now I remember why I was starting to hate RedHat. su to root, NO
/usr/sbin, /sbin path searching <frown>
b. NO ndiswrapper in dvd download and so far not searchable via yum
c. Abandoning wireless on CentOS, this pup is for OpenVZ testing anyhow.
d. On 256M, 1.063g P3 cpu, actually not too bad performance wise.
e. Need to dig OpenVZ install doc's and move forward!
Goose
/ I guess I missed the were off message tonight <Grin>
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