Adventures in archiving
Nov. 23rd, 2009 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo I did what I did not ought to do (and nearly had a nasty accident, trying to lift down the old monitor while balanced on the arm of the easy chair; did of course fall, did of course drop the monitor, but I don't think either of us came out any worse than we went in), because it did after all seem the logical course - and then plugged everything into everything else and applied electrijuice. And watched Linux powering up - and then watched it falter, watched it fail. Kernel panic, it said.
Ah, yes. I remember those. I remember that I used to know what to do about them. It had to do with a CD, I remember, and a reboot, and fixing problem sectors manually or some such. I couldn't begin that tonight, not knowing where on earth the CD might be, if indeed I have it still.
So I was going to give up, only then I thought "It's a dual-boot system, I'll just see if Windows is working" - and after a couple of stutters, yup, got that working. And lo: there is virtue in being a multi-back-up kind of soul! For right there - right here beside my left elbow, as I type on this other machine - is the very thing I've been looking for. And it's only a page I was missing, so rather than faffing about with copying it from one machine to t'other I'm just going to type it out. Manually. With my fingers. And then, wine. Much wine, and many times. I'm not sure if this is triumph or the other thing, but it deserves a libation none the less.
Ah, yes. I remember those. I remember that I used to know what to do about them. It had to do with a CD, I remember, and a reboot, and fixing problem sectors manually or some such. I couldn't begin that tonight, not knowing where on earth the CD might be, if indeed I have it still.
So I was going to give up, only then I thought "It's a dual-boot system, I'll just see if Windows is working" - and after a couple of stutters, yup, got that working. And lo: there is virtue in being a multi-back-up kind of soul! For right there - right here beside my left elbow, as I type on this other machine - is the very thing I've been looking for. And it's only a page I was missing, so rather than faffing about with copying it from one machine to t'other I'm just going to type it out. Manually. With my fingers. And then, wine. Much wine, and many times. I'm not sure if this is triumph or the other thing, but it deserves a libation none the less.