Diary: August 2005
As some of you may remember, I have recently bought a new server and have been waiting for the internet to set up linux on it. Well, now I have the internet I have no excuses.
Seeing as it's intended to be a network file storage system, it has no need for trivial devices such as floppy or CD drives, so I didn't buy it any. Instead I decided I was going to install over my network, booting from a USB flash drive memory stick key whateveryoucallit thinger.
I'm installing Debian stable 3.1 (sarge) on an ...
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The only other problem that I have run into so far has been the way the installer insisted on installing the MBR to the wrong drive (hda rather than hde). I reinstalled, saying no to installing grub on the MBR and entering the destination manually, but then grub was still pointing at the wrong drive, so I had to find the drive vmlinuz was on (with find vmlinux-versionstuff), and change the root command accordingly. The obscure southpark reference I went for in the end was 'uriel', after the Archangel of salvation (episode 904) - quite appropriate for a backup server, I ...
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Today is a sad day. I have stopped my Sky subscription, after 12 wonderful years of delight. Although only subscribed to the sports channels for the first year, and to the movie channels for no more than three years, it never ceased to find something interesting to show me. Sky One gleefully accompanied me through the last seasons of Deep Space 9, Buffy and Voyager, and introduced me to the wonders of Stargate SG1, not to mention the putting on Trek re-runs every weekday at midnight. On the odd occasion when Sky One could not entertain me, the little box ...
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