Sabayon 5.4

I am trying the live DVD of Sabayon 5.4 and WOW is it ever nice!
Everything I've thrown at it just works - on-line video, on-line radio, even the size of the clock (finally somebody listened)!
I am really impressed with it.
They are using KDE 4.5.1.
Hey maybe it's time I figured out what all the hoopla is regarding these widgets and have some fun with this distro!
I Like, I Like, I Like...

Neo wrote:I am trying the live DVD of Sabayon 5.4 and WOW is it ever nice!
Everything I've thrown at it just works - on-line video, on-line radio, even the size of the clock (finally somebody listened)!
I am really impressed with it.
They are using KDE 4.5.1.
Hey maybe it's time I figured out what all the hoopla is regarding these widgets and have some fun with this distro!
I Like, I Like, I Like...

After attempting to install Sabayon 5.4...

I NO Like, I NO Like, I NO Like...

It crashed during the last phase of the install and made a F**king Mess of everything.

I had to reinstall PCLOS just to get Grub back.

Grrr...

Finally got it installed and working.
It is pretty sweet.

Unfortunately a careless mistake on my end [hd(0,2) does not = sda2 !!!] caused me to lose my main OS and ALL of my files.
I hadn't installed a new OS in over a year.

Yeah I know, Backup, Backup, Backup.
Or in this case Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.

Well as a result, I wiped out several OS that I wasn't using or didn't like and now have Sabayon 5.4, MEPIS 8.5 & 8.0, PCLOS 2010.7 & 2009.2, Vector 6 KDE and Tiny Core 3.1.

I think I'll make MEPIS 8.5 my main OS once I get VLC installed (no small task on this particular OS) and my printer installed.

If it works as well as I think it does I'll say bu bye to MEPIS 8.0 and PCLOS 2009.2.

Tiny Core is proving to be a real pain in the ass so I may dump it and install a lightweight OS for when I'm in a rush to just check an e-mail.

For what it's worth, PCLOS 2010 loads much faster than MEPIS 8.5, but I much prefer 8.5 to 2010.

Peace.

For what it's worth...

I know that this is too late for you Neo, but for others who may come across this thread in the future...

As for me and my house... I use hard drive racks... they are easy to install, cheap, and the smaller hard drives (250 GB or so) are available for a song... I use one rack per OS... In that way, even if I do make a mistake, and believe me I have made them, no real harm done.

I have my network set up so as I am finished loading a brand new OS, I can drag and drop ALL of my data files over to the new OS from a different OS... When you think about it... it is the ultimate backup solution...I have around a dozen hard drive racks, both IDE and SATA, and they ALL have pretty much the same data files loaded on them, including pictures of my precious grand kids... . The odds of all of these drives going bad at the same time are infinitesimal... and I use USB keys to backup my more recent files that I add or modify. In that way, I can incrementally backup all the different hard drives as I put them in the computers and fire them up...

Food for thought... Me-Myself-I of the Lindows and *spire days gave me the idea as to have two receiver racks installed on the same computer so as to have one as the "master" and the other as a "slave" which is kinda what I did on my new computer... only I got two 2TB hard drives configured as a RAID 1 array, so I have a backup of my data backup that keeps itself constantly backed up and updated...

And of course there is the external USB hard drive that I drag and drop my data files to from time to time as well.

Moral of this epistle you ask??? Have a backup plan, use it... and as for me and my household... NEVER EVER set up dual boot (or greater) hard drives... You are building a house of cards that will ultimately come a tumbling down... sooner or later, but will definitely happen, I can guarantee that fact...

Harvey

hqlinux wrote:For what it's worth...

I know that this is too late for you Neo, but for others who may come across this thread in the future...

As for me and my house... I use hard drive racks... they are easy to install, cheap, and the smaller hard drives (250 GB or so) are available for a song... I use one rack per OS... In that way, even if I do make a mistake, and believe me I have made them, no real harm done.

I have my network set up so as I am finished loading a brand new OS, I can drag and drop ALL of my data files over to the new OS from a different OS... When you think about it... it is the ultimate backup solution...I have around a dozen hard drive racks, both IDE and SATA, and they ALL have pretty much the same data files loaded on them, including pictures of my precious grand kids... . The odds of all of these drives going bad at the same time are infinitesimal... and I use USB keys to backup my more recent files that I add or modify. In that way, I can incrementally backup all the different hard drives as I put them in the computers and fire them up...

Food for thought... Me-Myself-I of the Lindows and *spire days gave me the idea as to have two receiver racks installed on the same computer so as to have one as the "master" and the other as a "slave" which is kinda what I did on my new computer... only I got two 2TB hard drives configured as a RAID 1 array, so I have a backup of my data backup that keeps itself constantly backed up and updated...

And of course there is the external USB hard drive that I drag and drop my data files to from time to time as well.

Moral of this epistle you ask??? Have a backup plan, use it... and as for me and my household... NEVER EVER set up dual boot (or greater) hard drives... You are building a house of cards that will ultimately come a tumbling down... sooner or later, but will definitely happen, I can guarantee that fact...

Harvey

LOL... yeah I should have used a BACKUP plan. Sigh.

hqlinux wrote:For what it's worth...

I know that this is too late for you Neo, but for others who may come across this thread in the future...

As for me and my house... I use hard drive racks... they are easy to install, cheap, and the smaller hard drives (250 GB or so) are available for a song... I use one rack per OS... In that way, even if I do make a mistake, and believe me I have made them, no real harm done.


And of course there is the external USB hard drive that I drag and drop my data files to from time to time as well.

Moral of this epistle you ask??? Have a backup plan, use it... and as for me and my household... NEVER EVER set up dual boot (or greater) hard drives... You are building a house of cards that will ultimately come a tumbling down... sooner or later, but will definitely happen, I can guarantee that fact...

Harvey

Hi Harvey, I learned that the hard way also some time back. For my own reasons, I have been using laptops for a while. I quickly learned what models have easily swappable drives.
I have a Toughbook CF-51 and a Dell D-830 and both can be swapped out in moments! The Dell doesn't really need caddies for the SATA drives. That's a plus since it doesn't get moved much.
Want to try a new Distro? Put in the test drive. At the moment, I have 5 drives and it's working real nice. For backups, I have been using Clonezilla to an external USB drive. Works real nice.
As my 'allowance' permits, I want to set up a simple server on the network using a RAID array also. I have too many projects at the moment! JohnP