Lousy Lynx

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Synopsis: progress report.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:13 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 09/19/2010 10:02 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> ...
> > I'd even be workable for class tomorrow if I could just boot the vista
> > partition, but I'm not sure how to restore the MS MBR, and I don't think
> I
> > backed that up.
> ...
> These may be of help (disclaimer: I've *not* tried them):
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
> [Master Boot Record and Boot Manager]
> and the reference:
> http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
> <
> http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?s=7c55fa307dcb33f86da178e191a4d02b&t=3153
> >
> <http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Ubuntu>
>

Some folks have had a lot of fun at my expense.  Well done, but my wife beat
you to it years ago when by repeatedly, in my most awkward moments, asking
"did anyone actually SEE you go to Dartmouth?" got me to go to grad school
in my 50's.  Thus the PhD.

As for how easy it is, this is a Dell OEM with no floppy, and I have no
flipping idea where the install disk is.  I count on
backups which are way faster than installs.  I have five portable disks
ranging from 300 G to 2 TB, all with both SATA and USB interfaces. After
re-partitioning as I did above, it took a whole 16 minutes to restore my
Linux data.

I own about 2000 floppy disks, and I'm getting there real fast with CDs and
DVDs, both data and entertainment.  Things get lost.

In any event, since restoring the Vista MBR would make Linux things harder
later, I just used Linux to make a grub CD with the menu that was built on
the laptop.  It boots up to grub.  The Linux entries fail, but that's not my
first priority.  It boots Vista just fine and I've spent the last 10 hours
or so writing assignments, syllabi, schedules and assignments.  I think I'll
squeeze through tomorrow.  I just have 2+ hours of face time, so I'll
probably be able to get around to re-learning the grub shell.  Since I'm
teaching OS and systems programming, there may even be some students who can
make short work of it.  I became honest about my failings long ago -- I
think it even helps students to realize that bugs never stop coming, nor
does frustration.  I've already put my grub disk and some likely Linux live
disks in my pack.

Come to think of it, I think I'll use the night to back up Vista.

Thanks for the help,. and I'll read all the above more carefully tomorrow
when I'm no longer running scared.

++ kevin

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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