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
