On Mon, 26 May 2008 18:53:52 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: [....] >> Given success (I hope, I hope), I'm ready to try the biggest >> hammer of all : find a way to wipe one hard drive without taking the >> other, too. Caffeine insufficiency; when I came to it, of course, I simply told F8's anaconda to take all of sda and let sdb alone. I had to restore the grub.conf that works, but I have a copy. I'll test that directly. First, even though I used a February respin, there are of course a scad and a half of updates. > Linux is not just wonderful; it's downright amazing. On this > machine (my #2) it let me get into the gleanings folder, while #1 was > (is!) still downloading, and delete stuff! (Fwiw, having succeeded with > ssh into #1, I did the scp back into #2 from there -- if that matters.) > What's more, I can delete stuff (particularly whole ISOs) faster than > the other machine can pour them in. > > This is looking propitious, and then some. > > I may yet get F8 back onto that machine -- *with* the files I > don't want to lose ... Done. It's updating now, with Alpine and Opera already installed; meanwhile, I'm in process of scp'ing the gleanings back onto it. Many thanks for all the help here! I may try the upgrade again soon; or I may wait for the first F9 respin, in hope of the anaconda bug (which seems to've been involved somehow) getting stomped in the meanwhile. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
