bascule....you haven't yet tried the linear boot mode? I
thought you'd done that days ago and I just assumed it hadn't
worked. Let me know.
Alan
bascule wrote:
>
> thankyou,
> your point is well made,
> true a sizable proportion of 'my stuff' comprises stuff hoarded over the
> years that i could actually live without, nevertheless i would be
> annoyed to lose it.
> i have in fact used floppies to back up correspondence, finance records
> etc.
> the rest is now going to have to do what i'm about to do
> -live on the edge-
> as i'm going to try this linear option thing - damp squib anyone?
>
> bascule
>
> "Chuck or Judy Bradley (maybe both)" wrote:
> >
> > I'm following this list hoping for a lead about a
> > totally different problem. I followed the topic of
> > "scsi boot linear mode" because it blended into the closest
> > topic I could find. Anyway, this response is because of
> >
> > >if i don't get any advice not to try i will go ahead and try using this
> > >option but i'd welcome advice from anyone who knows about it as i have
> > >important stuff on other partitions on this scsi drive and currently my
> > >backup tape drive is dead.
> >
> > Put it on floppies!
> > Back up the stuff that is important. Put it on multipe media even if
> > it has not changed. You can get an OS back in a few hours; you can get
> > dozens of applications back in a weekend. But you can not recover your
> > great American (or somewhere) novel, or your 50 sonnets on virtues, or your
> > picture of a dead grandchild or grandparent, or the passwords to your
> > on-line brokerage accounts, or your 175 best recipes ever,
> > or, you get the idea.
> >
> > For most of us, everything we create in our life,
> > that can be saved conveniently as bytes, can be saved
> > conveniently as bytes on a single floppy. For most of us,
> > a single floppy holds all we want to leave on a computer
> > to most of the world.
> > You artistic types get more space, if you remember to
> > BACK UP THE IMPORTANT STUFF. Pictures or sound take more
> > space than text. If you do not think it is worth backing up,
> > then you do not think it is worth saving.
> >
> > Anyway, BACK UP THE IMPORTANT STUFF and do not worry about
> > the trivia of the moment. With backups, anyone can be brave.
> >
> > Best wishes for a successful installaion and successful use
> > of Linux.
> >
> > ceb
