Jerry McBride wrote: > > Hi Dale... > > Umm... where do you live? I'm in New Jersey... If you are state side, I'm > willing to burn a few Gentoo cd's or dvd's for you if you wish. Won't cost > you a dime. > > Just email me if you are interested. > > -- > > Jerry McBride >
Well, everything is good to go over here right now. My hard drives are only about 3 years old. I do have a backup of portage and a snapshot on some CDs. I do this when a big upgrade like KDE comes out. I also have a UPS connected and a surge protector as well. Short of me spilling tea in my rig I should be OK. I'm not going to say I am completely safe though. If I say that, I will find a hole in my plan. :-( I do see the OPs point though. If I had to install and had no back-ups at all, it would be tough. I have the latest CD, 2006.1 I think, that is available but look at all the updates that have come out since then. It would be a huge download and would take me over a week, if not longer. Plus, I can't connect to the net from the CD. As to where I live, I live about half way between Columbus and West Point MS. I'm almost to the very end of the phone line and the big telephone box is about 20 years old. As a matter fact, when they last replaced that box, we got off of party lines. How's that for old? They were due to replace the box a couple years ago but hurricane Dennis and Katrina hit the coast and all the phone people went south, as a geographical direction, not a figure of speech. That would have got us DSL out here and I would have been on it with both feet, firmly. I do plan to get a DVD burner soon. If I do that, I plan to do complete backups then, the whole thing, not just a snapshot and distfiles. If you follow the myspace link below, you may understand why I have not done so already. My blog entries get a lot of reads. Divorces can be nasty. May have a new blog entry in the next few days, waiting on the call from a lawyer. Thanks for the offer. If something did happen, I do have a plan. I have not tested it but I certainly hope it will work if I have to test it. May keep that offer in mind though. < Dale make a note of the email address > I would gladly pay the costs of the media and mailing at least. Paypal comes to mind to take care of that. ;-) Jeez, I hadn't had a offer to help like that in a while. I thought I was the only one that would do something like that. Your name is familiar too. Where I know you from is unclear but we have spoke before, some where. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
