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Can/has anyone used a 12V lead acid car battery as a UPS for their box?
I've got a spare one in the garage and the thought has crossed my mind .
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Regards,
Mick
Mick,
It can be done but is slightly more involved than just plugging in teh car
bat. I have 3 deepcycle batts, set up
In case you missed it
On 9/7/05, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi waltdnes,
on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote:
Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
on a UPS.
Hi waltdnes,
on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote:
Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
on a UPS.
Not if all you want is to give your home system 5 minutes to shut down
in a
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:31:50PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote
1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS.
Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
on a UPS.
Not if all you want is to
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:06 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
My question :-
I need to copy all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
If both drives are the same
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben Blount schreef:
MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
grub-install just to be sure.
You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
(putting in the appriopriate mount
Hi
Long story short
- power outage damages hard drive
- under liveCD data can still be read [phew]
- comp will not boot from damaged hdd
- man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS
- installed new hdd | /dev/hda
- old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 =
/swap, hdb3
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
My question :-
I need to copy all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
If both drives are the same size
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096
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Neil Bothwick
I heard Tasha Yar is the Enterprise's expert on Data entry.
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
My question :-
I need to copy all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?
If both drives are the same size
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096
will that get the
MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
grub-install just to be sure.
You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
(putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course)
Ben Blount
On 9/1/05, John Jolet [EMAIL
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:16, Ben Blount wrote:
MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
grub-install just to be sure.
You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
I'd do a cp -pR if I did that, to maintain
Ben Blount schreef:
MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
grub-install just to be sure.
You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
(putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course)
Ben Blount
Wouldn't
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:38 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096
will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install
step?
It gets *everything*
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Neil Bothwick
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Hi people
MANY thanks people for the advice, after some painful time I have got
my system back or at least everything seems fine so far [typing from
opera in X].
As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I
performed the following steps
1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:05:48 +
Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I
performed the following steps
1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS.
Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well with
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