[Herefordshire] Things not to do.

[Julian Robbins]

Hi David

I like the 'things not to do'. Perhaps we all ought to chip in and see 
if there's any commonality in there ;-)

My Things not to do 1)

The famous 'five minute' job. Three hours later you're done ;-)

Things not to do 2)

Install too many distros on your pc. Yes, I know it should work, but 
sometimes, .... it doesn't ... Broken boot :-(

Things not to do 3)

Upgrade your Mandrake Install, without first first switching back to the 
std nvidia 'nv' driver. The new all singing and dancing version doesn't 
have the nvidia driver, due to 'licence restrictions' so that your X 
display gets buggered up. How many of us claim this one ? Luckily, at 
least you learn a little 'vi' and then learn how easy it is to swap the 
driver over for X on the cmd line ... ;-)

Things not to do 4)

Start playing tuxracer/frozen bubble. You will be on it for hours .... !!

Julian

David Reid wrote:
> Things not to do 1)
> 
> Fiddle with your linux installation while watching 'Comic Relief Fame 
> Academy', after a long hard demoralising day at work.
> 
> Things not to do 2)
> 
> Use partition magic to drop yout linux partitions (it wouldn't boot 
> after some long forgotten attempt to give XP a bit more elbow room on my 
> laptop and anyway I fancied trying a different distribution). Grub gets 
> a bit shirty because it's configuration file lives on the linux boot 
> partition. On a dual boot XP/Linux machine you lose the ability to boot 
> your XP install as well.
> 
> Things not to do 3)
> 
> Forget the XP Administrator password. To reinstall the windows boot 
> loader you need to boot off the XP CD, choose the recover option then 
> type fixmbr. Before it does that it asks you for the Administrator 
> password. I didn't even know it had a password on my PC!
> 
> 
> Thankfully, Grub still allows you to boot an OS even if you lose it's 
> config file :-
> 
> grub>  rootnoverify (hd0,1)            # the 1 is because Dell create a 
> hidden recovery partition
> grub> makeactive
> grub> chainloader +1
> grub> boot
> 
> got me back into XP and although my Dell's odd installation stopped me 
> restoring the windows boot loader a quick Ubuntu install put everything 
> back in working order. God bless the internet.
> 
> And surely Reggie should have gone before Dawn? Go Edith.
> 
> 'Fame Academy' has just started again - think I'll have a quick fiddle 
> with my new Ubuntu install :-)
> 
> David.
> 
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