Hi all,

I've been lurking here for a month or two and thought it was time I
introduce myself.


I'm an unemployed truck driver and neon tube bender living in northern
Illinois.
I have a bit of an education. I attended Cisco Academy back in 2003 but
haven't been motivated to sit for the exam yet and I've had just enough
electronics training to be dangerous.


I've been using Ubuntu since the beginning and have loved it
unconditionally ...until recently.
Loyalty will surely prompt me to try 11.xx and Unity again soon but I
have to confess Linux Mint is wooing me a bit. One of these days I'm
going to dive in to LFS with both feet and hopefully get a real
GNU/Linux education.
I still have Gutsy Gibbon running on one machine and have never had a
problem with it. Another machine runs Hardy but the hard disk is on it's
last legs. I'm planning on trying out Clonezilla or something else (any
other suggestions for this job?) to get that installation onto a healthy
drive.


I like to read, listen to and make music - I'm a perennial guitar
student and passable rhythm player, attempting to teach myself finger
picking.
I love the old Mississippi Delta and other Blues players and the Folkies
like Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, etc. and the /real/ Country and
Bluegrass pickers - Country doesn't mean much anymore since Nashville
has been co-opted by what they are now calling "Real Country" (oh
please!!!), you know - the "hat" bands.... not to disparage the
musicians, some of those guitarists are consummate players and they
surround themselves with very talented sidemen/women.


I'm a lifelong fan of radio (remember when music on radio used to be
good?), especially short wave and would choose radio over television any
day.


Well, this is probably enough if not too much information so I'll stop now.

Cheers,
Curt
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On 07/04/2011 09:07 AM, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
...
> I still have Gutsy Gibbon running on one machine and have never had a
> problem with it. Another machine runs Hardy but the hard disk is on it's
> last legs. I'm planning on trying out Clonezilla or something else (any
> other suggestions for this job?) to get that installation onto a healthy
> drive.
...

Welcome to the list Curt.

Install the new drive on the system, boot from a liveCD, ensure both
drives are not mounted & use gparted copy. That will copy the data from
the old drive to the new drive bit-for-bit. You can then test by
disconnecting the old drive & booting with the new drive.

Alternate method is to use dd:
<http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19141/clone-a-hard-drive-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/>

You may find this of interest:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/202144
[dd + gparted + UUID]


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On 07/05/2011 10:41 PM, NoOp wrote:

On 07/04/2011 09:07 AM, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
...

I still have Gutsy Gibbon running on one machine and have never had a
problem with it. Another machine runs Hardy but the hard disk is on it's
last legs. I'm planning on trying out Clonezilla or something else (any
other suggestions for this job?) to get that installation onto a healthy
drive.

...

Welcome to the list Curt.

Install the new drive on the system, boot from a liveCD, ensure both
drives are not mounted& use gparted copy. That will copy the data from
the old drive to the new drive bit-for-bit. You can then test by
disconnecting the old drive& booting with the new drive.

Alternate method is to use dd:
<http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19141/clone-a-hard-drive-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/>

You may find this of interest:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/202144
[dd + gparted + UUID]


Thanks NoOp, for the welcome and for the links - especially the one on
changing the uuid.

I'm about ready to give gparted a try.

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On 07/05/2011 10:41 PM, NoOp wrote:

On 07/04/2011 09:07 AM, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
...

I still have Gutsy Gibbon running on one machine and have never had a
problem with it. Another machine runs Hardy but the hard disk is on it's
last legs. I'm planning on trying out Clonezilla or something else (any
other suggestions for this job?) to get that installation onto a healthy
drive.

...

Welcome to the list Curt.

Install the new drive on the system, boot from a liveCD, ensure both
drives are not mounted& use gparted copy. That will copy the data from
the old drive to the new drive bit-for-bit. You can then test by
disconnecting the old drive& booting with the new drive.

Alternate method is to use dd:
<http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19141/clone-a-hard-drive-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/>

You may find this of interest:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/202144
[dd + gparted + UUID]


Thanks NoOp, for the welcome and for the links - especially the one on
changing the uuid.

I'm about ready to give gparted a try.

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Hi

My name is Stuart and I am a primary school teacher working at the International School of Geneva. I am using edubuntu 11.10 on my classroom computers and loving it. My IT director gave me permission to keep some old lenovos that were at the end of their lease and put edubuntu on them. This has let me increase my class computer from 3 desktops to 7 desktops and 4 thinkpads.


It all started from savaging from iMacs from the rubbish tip....

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Hey Stuart -- Sounds great! I got started the same way but since I had access to recycled PC's, I started with those. Now I've got almost 50 of them (a couple other teachers use them too, now.) Have fun exploring and implementing and you'll find an interested and helpful audience for your challenges and success on this list-server.

David G.


On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:07 PM, stuart edgecombe wrote:

> Hi
>
> My name is Stuart and I am a primary school teacher working at the International School of Geneva. I am using edubuntu 11.10 on my classroom computers and loving it. My IT director gave me permission to keep some old lenovos that were at the end of their lease and put edubuntu on them. This has let me increase my class computer from 3 desktops to 7 desktops and 4 thinkpads.
> It all started from savaging from iMacs from the rubbish tip....
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Hello Stuart,

2012/2/13 stuart edgecombe <stuart.edgecombe@gmail.com>:

> computers and loving it. My IT director gave me permission to keep some old
> lenovos that were at the end of their lease and put edubuntu on them. This

That's great! Was it hard to convince him?

> It all started from savaging from iMacs from the rubbish tip....

I don't understand this. Could you explain it a little more for me?

Thanks,

Guido

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