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Rescued

Dulan on September 22nd, 2005

Monday night:

Brilliant. My PC crashed again. GRUB stops working and there’s no way to access anything. Or is there?

Something’s wrong with my hard disk. I’m not very sure what exactly. But that’s besides the point - I want it working again. Soon. Please.

BeatrIX to the rescue. Yes, I have MEPIS and the Ubuntu LiveCD with me as well - which I’ll use for the actual recovery work - but when it comes to a speedy bootup with a no-frills approach to getting back to work, I prefer the small and simple BeatrIX.

Some meddling around with the command line and I’ve gotten root access and the access to all my data. Phew. It’s all there. Maybe I’ll get it backed up at office and format the HDD.

Wednesday night:
Everything’s back to normal. Or, as normal as a fresh installation of my operating system can be.

Due to its simplicity and elegance, not to mention the fact that it kept me online during a Hard-disk-less time, my copy of BeatrIX gets its place amongst my most favourite CDs.

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4 Responses to “Rescued”

  1. Thilina
    September 27th, 2005 at 5:08 pm

    Nice to hear that u still having and using the BeatrlX cd …

  2. Dulan
    September 28th, 2005 at 9:43 am

    mos def my man, mos def.

    Like I always say - “Good things come in small packages”, yeah? ;)

  3. Kanesh
    October 10th, 2005 at 4:47 pm

    Hi, as a fellow linux user (though nowhere near as experienced as you sound) would you be interested in starting up a blog of sorts about linux? I have a friend who would be interested in contributing as well, I think he’s using Mandrake though, I’m on FC4 on my “server” but thinking about going the Mandrake or even Xandros route (well, anything that has built in wifi support really).
    Interested?

  4. Dulan
    October 13th, 2005 at 10:43 pm

    Kanesh:

    nowhere near as experienced as you sound

    I’m flattered., though. See, I look at Linux from an end-user perspective. i.e. I just want it to work. If that’s what you’re looking for, I guess I could help out.

    dude, looks like I’ve given you a misleading impression. I’m actually pretty new to Linux. I use it ‘cos I like the fact that it’s free and open source.

    If you’re looking for some experienced people, might I suggest Chinthana, Janaka or drac?

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