On 21.06.11 17:56, Jack Coats wrote:
Actually, if you can afford another disk drive, put in a new drive,
install on it. Then install your old drive as a 'second' drive, and
copy your config files over.
+1
Around here, every PC is permanently equipped with two hard drives.
I then just use
I am working on an emc2 2.4 system that was installed with Ubuntu 10.04,
but a distribution upgrade to 10.10 was done by mistake about 6 months
ago. Emc2 is working fine but updates are not since 10.10 isn't
supported in the linuxcnc.org repository.
I plan to reinstall. I'll do a complete
Version control for the win. I'm a huge believer in git, but there are
others that will work fine, especially for single user stuff.
You can also use something like Clonezilla to make an image of the
existing drive, which can be restored if disaster strikes.
-Pete
On 06/21/2011 11:04 AM, Igor
One thought, that others will undoubtedly shoot down,
For your 'temporary backup' solution, install dropbox.
Put the files you want in there.
Re-install your machine, then put drop box on and get your
configs back.
Then if you want, un-install dropbox.
Or use ubuntuone.
Both have 2G for free.
On 06/21/2011 02:35 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
One thought, that others will undoubtedly shoot down,
For your 'temporary backup' solution, install dropbox.
Put the files you want in there.
Re-install your machine, then put drop box on and get your
configs back.
Then if you want, un-install
On 06/21/2011 02:48 PM, Peter Loron wrote:
On 06/21/2011 02:35 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
One thought, that others will undoubtedly shoot down,
For your 'temporary backup' solution, install dropbox.
Put the files you want in there.
Re-install your machine, then put drop box on and get your
Actually, if you can afford another disk drive, put in a new drive,
install on it. Then install your old drive as a 'second' drive, and copy
your
config files over.
This way you can keep the old drive for a while after you get things
running. Out of the machine is best to ensure nothing
