Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread Jeff_W
> You should definitely back that stuff up over the Internet.. Hey I know - you could chop your data up into 500 MB chunks and email them to your 1 terrabyte hriders account! BTW, thanks for that post - I'm at .0001% ! ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@e

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-22 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:28:46AM -0800, larry price wrote: > I think it's just got a half-height tray-style CD-ROM drive, > but the hachage possibilities are there. Probably a slimline tray-based drive, actually. Standard drives are already half-height. ;)

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-22 Thread Allen Brown
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Bob Miller wrote: > Allen Brown wrote: > > > At this point grub is not using a grub.conf file since I am > > loading grub from floppy. I run it interactively. Once > > that is working I will install grub on the hard drive. > > In that case, what are you typing at the grub

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-22 Thread Mr O
http://www.dynamism.com/r3/index.shtml $2899.00 imported. Ouch. --- Linux Rocks! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 02:30 am, Mr O wrote: > : The sad part isn't the 1Ghz C3 or the 128MB or RAM. It's the > : 14.1" screen! I want something with a 10" screen and at > least a

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread larry price
It all comes down to what you're backing up On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:59:17 -0800, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > larry price wrote: > > > Not as long as I would be if something were to happen today, > > currently all the truly critical unreplaceable data is less than 1G > > total, but grow

Re: [Eug-lug] Good/cool new(ish) Linux Apps/Utils

2004-12-22 Thread Jason
Yeah, I got a new 80GB drive for linux. I'll keep the old 40GB drive with XP in case it's ever needed. For work remote access, though, I'll maintain a small windows vm for vpn, mail, etc. Jason --- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason wrote: > > > I'm switching my work lappy back to L

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Miller
larry price wrote: > Not as long as I would be if something were to happen today, > currently all the truly critical unreplaceable data is less than 1G > total, but growing at about 1-2 Megs per week. > And that's counting the configuration files. You should definitely back that stuff up over the

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Miller
Allen Brown wrote: > At this point grub is not using a grub.conf file since I am > loading grub from floppy. I run it interactively. Once > that is working I will install grub on the hard drive. In that case, what are you typing at the grub prompt? -- Bob Miller K

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread Ken Barber
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 10:52 am, larry price wrote: > to this end I've been looking at various backup solutions, and thought > I'd ask for some informed opinions on the relative merits of different > solutions. I went through this a year ago, and spent quite a bit of time looking at solut

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:45:00PM -0800, larry price wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:58:25 -0800 (PST), Po Petz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > How much data? How are you defining your critical data? In the event of > > say, burglary or fire, how long can you tolerate being down? > > > Not as long as

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread larry price
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:58:25 -0800 (PST), Po Petz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How much data? How are you defining your critical data? In the event of > say, burglary or fire, how long can you tolerate being down? > Not as long as I would be if something were to happen today, currently all the truly c

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-22 Thread Allen Brown
At this point grub is not using a grub.conf file since I am loading grub from floppy. I run it interactively. Once that is working I will install grub on the hard drive. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread Po Petz
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, larry price wrote: currently my backup strategy (for my stuff) consists of Raid 1 on one machine and selective directory mirroring using rsync from the other machines, plus a monthly session of cd burning for critical data. It's starting to look inadequate and in the case of

Re: [Eug-lug] Good/cool new(ish) Linux Apps/Utils

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Miller
Jason wrote: > I'm switching my work lappy back to Linux after a > 10-month odyssey in XP-land. I haven't had my nose in > too much of the recent tools being released, so I was > wondering what folks on the list thought were the most > useful tools/apps/utils to make news in the last year > or so.

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Miller
Allen Brown wrote: > Last night as was heading for bed I had a thought. What if > grub expected the module to be in the /boot partition rather > than in initrd? I just tried that: copied the reiserfs.o > file to /boot and in grub specified "module /reiserfs.o". > It worked. I was able to boot.

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread larry price
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:59:02 -0800, Keelan Kindt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you considered using compression of some sort and DVD/RW discs? I'm > unsure of how much data is actually being backed up so this may have too > little capacity for your needs. Well DVD/RW is only 4.6G capacity, and

RE: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread Keelan Kindt
Have you considered using compression of some sort and DVD/RW discs? I'm unsure of how much data is actually being backed up so this may have too little capacity for your needs. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of larry price Sent: Wednesday, D

[Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread larry price
As the new year approaches, some of us take the time to cast a critical eye over our infrastructure. and contemplate upgrades. to this end I've been looking at various backup solutions, and thought I'd ask for some informed opinions on the relative merits of different solutions. currently my back

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-22 Thread Linux Rocks!
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 02:30 am, Mr O wrote: : The sad part isn't the 1Ghz C3 or the 128MB or RAM. It's the : 14.1" screen! I want something with a 10" screen and at least a : 3 to 5 hour battery life. I dont know if ive seen anything like that... there are many in the 12" range, infact, a

RE: [Eug-lug] Red Hat Linux Bible: Fedora and Enterprise Edition

2004-12-22 Thread Erik
Send me a list. I am mainly interested in redhat and fedora I am currently using PinkTie and thinking of going back to Fedora or Suse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Crandall Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 10:55 PM To: perdurabo; Euge

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-22 Thread Allen Brown
Last night as was heading for bed I had a thought. What if grub expected the module to be in the /boot partition rather than in initrd? I just tried that: copied the reiserfs.o file to /boot and in grub specified "module /reiserfs.o". It worked. I was able to boot. So in the end I didn't use a

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-22 Thread larry price
I think it's just got a half-height tray-style CD-ROM drive, but the hachage possibilities are there. It could make the foundation for a decent carputer. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 06:06:12 -0800, T. Joseph CARTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:30:28PM -0800, Mr O wrote: > > The

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-22 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:30:28PM -0800, Mr O wrote: > The sad part isn't the 1Ghz C3 or the 128MB or RAM. It's the > 14.1" screen! I want something with a 10" screen and at least a > 3 to 5 hour battery life. 14" screen? Hmm, if the thing has a slot-in optical drive, I may just have to get one.