Well not quite, but it seemed like that.<\/p>\n
My replacement hard disk arrived on Tueday so I spent all night juggling disks and partitions. I moved around 70GB of data around and now have my 160GB hard disk as \/home. The next step is to move the rest of the system onto the 60GB disk that used to be \/home without doing a reinstall. If my calculations are correct, this shouldn’t be too bad. I’ve never done this before but it should essentially be a case of booting from a live CD, mounting the partitions and moving the data across as I did before with \/home. I will need to edit \/etc\/fstab and \/boot\/grub\/menu.list and then make sure that whatever will be primary master hard disk has grub on it. I will also double check that \/boot\/grub\/device.map makes sense for how the disks are layed out.<\/p>\n
The next morning, after just over a week of waiting, my broadband connection got upgraded to 2Mb. Woo! In that afternoon I downloaded Fedore Core 3<\/a>, FreeBSD 5.4<\/a> for Sparc, OpenBSD 3.7<\/a> for Sparc, BeOS Developer Edition 1.1<\/a>, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Services for Unix<\/a> (both free via uni ;)), VM Ware Workstation 5.0<\/a> for Linux and Crossover Office 4.2<\/a>. Most of this is just to play with :). In a week I will get Debian Sarge for Sparc and x86 and Fedora Core 4 provided there aren’t any further release delays.<\/p>\n I’m getting close to sorting out my uni mess. I have now been passed on to a 4th person who is the Associate Dean of the school. Can’t get much higher without a resolution. I also have a doctors note to back up my claims. With a bit of luck this will all be resolved by Wednesday morning. It looks like I will be allowed to finish my project over the summer and my remaining modules next year. God damn it’s been a long haul to sort all of this out, nearly 2 months. At times I thought it would all just fall apart and I would end up debt-ridden and unqualified. Thank fuck it’s nearly over and I have a new job.<\/p>\n My current todo list is 50 items strong. They’re not all critical to be honest and a lot are just little personal projects, but at least 8 require either immediate attention or attention within a week and probably another 10 or 15 are for my project. Meh.<\/p>\n Well anyway, I have to go. Item #51 is revise for my exam tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well not quite, but it seemed like that. My replacement hard disk arrived on Tueday so I spent all night juggling disks and partitions. I moved around 70GB of data around and now have my 160GB hard disk as \/home. … Continue reading