ChrisK
En-Route
So for some reason I said "screw it" and decided to eliminate a couple partitions from my C drive that I wasn't using much (one was for a hackintosh and another had Ubuntu) and just allow my windows boot partition to take up the whole 500GB (I have a second 500GB drive for data in my "notebook"). No backups. Didn't have everything checked into SVN. Just decided to go for it.
First issue - the software I was using to resize the partition locked up after it hit 100%. Ok, it probably worked, but.. *gulp*
Second issue (one I expected) - grub is dead. Of course it is. I deleted it.
Download the ubuntu boot rescue ISO, ran the automated program, rebooted. Partition utility said "Batch operation successful!" (um, yes, you did it yesterday. and then locked up. ass.) and rebooted. Again.
Finally, Windows comes up SLOWLY (I seldom cold boot on these mechanical drives so I'm not used to this) and I see:
YAY. Now I'm relegated to linux on my firewall, in VMs, on my NAS, and of course a dash of Cygwin.
Next for me:
- Need to rescue this crappy old gateway PC and turn it into a linux sandbox. It was the mini tower I was carrying / checking in a packed box once a week to DC for 19 months, so it has quite literally taken a beating. Not sure if I can rescue it, but it is a fun project, and cheaper than flying..
- Starting a project that will probably use JBoss jBPM and Drools. Am trying to decide if I want to toss it in an Amazon EC2 instance. I don't think there is much in the way of shared JBoss hosting out there. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear them!
First issue - the software I was using to resize the partition locked up after it hit 100%. Ok, it probably worked, but.. *gulp*
Second issue (one I expected) - grub is dead. Of course it is. I deleted it.
Download the ubuntu boot rescue ISO, ran the automated program, rebooted. Partition utility said "Batch operation successful!" (um, yes, you did it yesterday. and then locked up. ass.) and rebooted. Again.
Finally, Windows comes up SLOWLY (I seldom cold boot on these mechanical drives so I'm not used to this) and I see:
YAY. Now I'm relegated to linux on my firewall, in VMs, on my NAS, and of course a dash of Cygwin.
Next for me:
- Need to rescue this crappy old gateway PC and turn it into a linux sandbox. It was the mini tower I was carrying / checking in a packed box once a week to DC for 19 months, so it has quite literally taken a beating. Not sure if I can rescue it, but it is a fun project, and cheaper than flying..
- Starting a project that will probably use JBoss jBPM and Drools. Am trying to decide if I want to toss it in an Amazon EC2 instance. I don't think there is much in the way of shared JBoss hosting out there. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear them!
I'm open to using VMs for local development as well (laptop has 4 slots with 2GB and specs claim it can only go to 8 max - I read people are putting 4GB chips in it just fine - ASUS RoG G73JH-A1)
