On 31/12/2018 2:04 am, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
It'd be nice to think the last few seconds of your work were still
saved in some state. Is there a way to make a secondary copy that you
could test?
My question is based on my perception of playing with several various
"VM" packages that might not be quite what you're doing in your case.
I multiple times over had no problem reusing backup copies BUT...
those had not crashed and burned, not that I can remember, anyway. :)
Hi Cindy, and thanks for the advice :-) I still haven't tried booting up
the VM since I wrote that message, but I know there are basically two
possibilities for what I might find when I do:
1. A restart of the book procedure from Chapter 6.9 onward will work,
and I will continue on my merry way.
2. It won't work; I'll get some sort of cryptic error message and will
need to restart from Chapter 4 again.
Either way, I'm not brave enough to even try it LOL. Things have picked
up for me work-wise - I'm a freelance developer who had nothing to work
on until Boxing Day last year, hence having the free time to work on
LFS until then, but this client wants their project done ASAP and I need
the money, so I think I'll pick back up from where I left off in a few
months (if possible).
I had done some things like this (LFS) in bits and pieces going back
many years ago while trying to install a local copy of the W3C's HTML
validator. Doing this repetitively now while watching each package
build on top of others helps it make a whole lot more sense.
Yeah that's the best thing about LFS and other projects like it :-)
You learn so much about the dependencies between packages and how it
all fits together to make a working thing. Not to mention the feeling
you get when you get it all working...the sleepless nights spent
screaming at the computer all become worth it! :-)
That's one of the reasons I try to slip in a plug for LFS where
appropriate. This project offers good Linux core newbie knowledge
that's applicable to so many other distributions even if users only
make it through that Chapter 5.
Chapter 5 is where I ended my first effort at because my hardware did
literally *burn*. My desktop PC's power supply kicked the bucket so
I'm on an ASUS 1015px with 1GB memory right now. I've been thinking
about trying it anyway just to see how far it gets BUT... my current
package currency is several months behind... on dialup. It's going to
take "a little bit of time" to catch back up to speed to Step One:
Download Those Packages. :)
Wow, you're still struggling along with dialup in 2019?! And I thought
I had it tough compared to Americans and Europeans...in Australia the
fastest consumer internet plans are around 50 mbps, and they're waaaaay
too expensive, whereas the Americans are surfing on twice the speed for
half the price. Just out of curiosity, do you mind if I ask where you
live?
I know it's a bit late now but Merry Christmas and happy new year! :-)
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