[OT] was (Re: Memtest choice on dual boot)

[Allen Meyers]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Thorny <thorntreehome at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> >  Thorny and the rest of this most helpful group. May I digress for a bit
> >  and
> > comment on the mentoring aspect of your mindsets or perspectives. I am
> > asking questions that I was too embarrassed to ask before and maybe
> > thats dumb.
>
> Yes Allen, please don't be embarrassed to ask questions, none of us knows
> things until we learn them.
>
> Sometimes, there are people who, on lists, and, in forums, serve their own
> ego by trying to make someone who is currently ignorant of a topic feel
> diminished. The Internet is a microcosm of life in general and is
> populated with all the same "types". I know from your age that you
> have considerable life experience and will understand what I mean. Serve
> yourself, ask questions and ignore what isn't helpful or productive for
> you and, as far as possible, don't let their actions poison your life. At
> the same time, always consider if they have a point about anything you are
> doing but just may not be able to express it in a manner that is easy on
> you.
>
> For example:
>
> I could say to you, "don't post in HTML, idiot".
>
> On the other hand, I might choose to say it, "please post in text only to
> this list as per the Mailing List Etiquette on this page".
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette
> You can configure your mail client to use text only.

Yea been there done that went to settings choose choose text encoding

>
> One of those ways has, in my opinion, a better chance to get the point
> across productively, however, both make the point and either might work. I
> have seen both work, though, I think, for different individuals.
>
>
> > Best way describe it is you all made me comfortable enough to ask and
> > broaden my learning curve so thanks.
>
> Good for you, you made the choice, we are only accountable for creating
> an atmosphere where you can be comfortable.

  If I had any advice and this is hind sight for a newbie of any age it
would be
  choose an OS and gnome, become proficient and do not choose a dual boot
  until you are proficient. I have 3 OS and my comprehension has been
  critically challenged as a result.

>
>
> > The downside is you may have opened an information flood gate
>
> Perhaps, yet we always have the option to not answer questions. :-)


  So that being said and living at least for now with 3 OS I quote your post
prior
  to this one:

I hope you had a chance to read through the options in your menu.lst, you
may have found one that related even more to memtest86 than the one I
mentioned. In addition, you probably found your boot folder in the root
of one of the operating systems that you have installed in your multi-boot
system, not on the partition sda1, which you said was swap. At least,
that's the way it would be if you don't have a separate partition for
/boot. However, you may not have a chance to read through the stuff yet.
Another change I made was to now only have 1 swap which is on hda1 and
I no longer have any extended and I am able to better understand  my 3 OS
even though I I wonder why I really need them[?]

The separate partition for /boot was something I had not considered and
since
mepis8 is by itself on a 40GB HD I could do that with ease. Would it just be
a question of resizing creating a new partition label /boot and does that
boot
inclusion under flags sda1 have to be removed?

And again Thorny and the entire crew thanks

Allen



-- 
Allen Meyers
texas.chef94 at gmail.com
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