VAIO doings...
Apr. 6th, 2006 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpBack in September of last year, while I was at Baikonur, I used the Trinity Rescue Kit (link to ver. 3.1) to get some files off a computer that wouldn't boot, as a favor to the person whose computer it was (one of the folks I worked for). In doing so, I noticed the distribution let me see a directory listing of the VAIO's hidden "recovery" partition, a 5-GB chunk of my 55-GB drive that's basically not been used since I bought the unit a couple of years ago.
Hmmm. Revise that... Actually, I did make use of the partition. Twice. I tried to make a set of recovery disks, but failed both times after dutifully creating 8 of the 9 required CDs (the program to create the CDs couldn't or wouldn't make the one critical disk, the one used to boot the computer!).
Anyway, yesterday or so I made a third use of the partition when I copied all of the contents to my desktop using the old Trinity distro (ver. 1.1).
Why did I copy the contents?
Well, I intend to take my VAIO down the Ubuntu path, just as soon as I can download the "Dapper Drake" install CD.
In preparation, I took another look at my system hard drives and noticed that some time ago, I had carved a 5-GB piece out of the partition occupied by the D drive, likely in preparation for installing a version of Linux, but never went through with the operation because it wasn't the right approach. This is a pleasant surprise, since I can now hand most, if not all, of that real estate back to the D drive (which has been acting scrawny lately).
But of course, all of that will have to wait, as I have a robotics text to translate.
Cheers...
Hmmm. Revise that... Actually, I did make use of the partition. Twice. I tried to make a set of recovery disks, but failed both times after dutifully creating 8 of the 9 required CDs (the program to create the CDs couldn't or wouldn't make the one critical disk, the one used to boot the computer!).
Anyway, yesterday or so I made a third use of the partition when I copied all of the contents to my desktop using the old Trinity distro (ver. 1.1).
Why did I copy the contents?
Well, I intend to take my VAIO down the Ubuntu path, just as soon as I can download the "Dapper Drake" install CD.
In preparation, I took another look at my system hard drives and noticed that some time ago, I had carved a 5-GB piece out of the partition occupied by the D drive, likely in preparation for installing a version of Linux, but never went through with the operation because it wasn't the right approach. This is a pleasant surprise, since I can now hand most, if not all, of that real estate back to the D drive (which has been acting scrawny lately).
But of course, all of that will have to wait, as I have a robotics text to translate.
Cheers...
