... I just want to confirm the instructions I found on how to restore
GRUB so that I regain access to Linux after the Windows install
overwrites the MBR.
This is what I found..
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Boot the system from a live CD
Open a Terminal session
To enter the GRUB
When it comes to running Linux and Windows on the same system, it is always
best to install Windows before installing Linux, since most Linux installers
will detect the Windows installation and setup grub on the MBR
appropriately.
Of course, in your setup, it sounds like you've already got Linux
On 08/16/2010 10:49 AM, Chris McQuistion wrote:
When it comes to running Linux and Windows on the same system, it is always
best to install Windows before installing Linux
True, that's always been what I've had to deal with in the past.
Of course, in your setup, it sounds like you've already
And from the voice of been there done that to myself before,
do a backup and test it so you can come back if the worst happens and
Winders decides to take over in spite of direction... :)
... Jack
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I get a daily blurb from the InformationWeek / UMB Techweb crowd called
Dark Reading that discusses security breaches, malware and other
entertainment... Today's lead item mentions six healthcare industry
data breaches that could have been prevented with a little planning.
They tossed out the
I decided many years ago after reading 18 tapes and finding 3 that
worked that were stored over 2 years previously that I really didn't
want a repeat of that fiasco. It is even more scary when backups have
to be encrypted and reliable.
If I was going to backup something now that has any
Some of this system was put into place before I got here, but we backup
our data server to an external USB hard drive, which gets rotated out
weekly lives at my house in the mean time. As a backup to the backup,
I repurposed an old web server into a FreeNAS box, located in another
part of the
Another thing that happened to me once, back in my sysadmin days, is that a
drive controller went bad and started writing data onto the wrong hard drive
tracks. The backup system was working correctly, and didn't report any errors,
but the data was already corrupted before it was backed up.
On 08/16/2010 09:20 PM, Michael Chaney wrote:
Odd, I've been using Duplicity for a couple of years now to back up to
S3, never knew it was considered beta. It works great.
Michael
Now you tell us!! :)
Howard
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