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FCM News When technology hates me, it REALLY hates me. by Ronnie Tucker I'm writing this to explain why the upcoming issue of Full Circle (FCM#79) will be a bit less polished than the 78 before it, and also to be somewhat therapeutic. It all began on Saturday afternoon when I was browsing through the list of recently released distros on Distrowatch. I spotted one called FreeNAS and had the brainwave that I could install that on my old ASUS Revo setting it up as a NAS drive for backups. Genius! Of course, while setting it up I'd document the whole thing for an FCM article. Trying to get FreeNAS to boot was a struggle. After much reading it turns out that the ISO file is only for burning to CD/DVD. Grabbing the IMG file I try and copy that to my USB stick. Nothing. Turns out you need to use the dd command to put the IMG file onto the USB as it doesn't really install to a drive it boots from the USB to make the device it's in a NAS drive. OK so, I run the dd command and it still hasn't showed up on my USB stick. Weird! Wait, so where did it install FreeNAS?
Nouvelles de FCM Quand la technologie me hait, elle me hait VRAIMENT. par Ronnie Tucker
J'écris ceci pour expliquer pourquoi ce numéro de Full Circle qui arrive (FCM 79) sera un peu moins fini que le 78 précédent, et aussi pour être un peu thérapeutique.
Tout a commencé le samedi après-midi quand je regardais la liste des distrib. publiées récemment sur Distrowatch. Je repéré un appelé FreeNAS et eu la bonne idée que je pourrais installer que sur mon ancien ASUS Revo sa mise en place comme un disque dur réseau pour les sauvegardes. Genius! Bien sûr, tout en mettant en place je documente le tout pour un article de la FCM. Essayer d'obtenir FreeNAS pour démarrage a été un combat. Après beaucoup de lecture, il s'avère que le fichier ISO est seulement pour la gravure de CD / DVD. Saisissant le fichier IMG j'essaie de copier que pour ma clé USB. Rien. Il s'avère que vous devez utiliser la commande dd pour mettre le fichier IMG sur l'USB car il n'a vraiment pas installer sur un disque, il démarre à partir de la clé USB pour rendre le dispositif est dans un lecteur NAS. OK, je lance la commande dd et il n'a toujours pas montré sur ma clé USB. Bizarre! Attendez, alors où est-il installer FreeNAS? It installed it on my 1TB drive wiping everything. All the partitions. The lot. Gone. My Euro Truck Simulator 2 profile. Gone! NOOOOOOooooooo!!!!! Initially I thought it had wiped my OS which wouldn't have been a problem as I have (or had!) all my stuff on my /home partition. No. It took over the whole drive erasing all my partitions and files. After I let that sink in and stopped sobbing, it was time to get up and running again. Did I have a *buntu DVD sitting ready to load? Nope. I rifled through some magazines and found a DVD with Ubuntu 13.04 on it and booted from there. I downloaded Kubuntu 13.10 (64bit) and used the Ubuntu startup creator tool to put Kubuntu on my USB. Reboot. Nothing. Ubuntu (for reasons unknown) hadn't copied Kubuntu to the USB properly for it to boot. And of course, since I'm out of the live Ubuntu the Kubuntu ISO is gone. I'm now thinking I might have to install Ubuntu 13.04 and upgrade to 13.10, but I really didn't want Unity. I wanted my beloved KDE back.
Now I try Mint. Mint 15 was on an old magazine DVD too. Booted it and it looked OK. So, after 30 minutes or so I'm booting into Mint 15. Finally. Progress! But, no. Mint 15 isn't recognising my dual monitors, nor is it letting me change resolutions. When I click the System Settings (in the Mint menu) it seems to be bringing up an invisible window that I can't see, but can resize. More sobbing. I use this time of self pity to download Mint 16 RC and burn it to a DVD. I boot from that and Mint 16 seems fine. I can change resolutions and can rearrange my monitor setup. Finally! Here I sit in Mint 16 RC with absolutely no files what so ever. I've now installed SpiderOak and can at least download my photos that I'd backed up to there. That's something I suppose.
So. in short: KEEP A REGULAR BACKUP! Don't rely on your /home or some mystical force to save your files. Needless to say, I never did write the FreeNAS article. Yours, with a Minty fresh blank hard drive, Ronnie Regarding FCM#79: I had a preview PDF saved online (for the proof-readers to take a look at) so I'll be releasing that this coming Friday. It has a couple of blank pages/columns here and there, but it's totally readable. I'm not sure how it'll go for translations as, obviously, I don't have the Scribus file for that issue. Anyway… that's MY My Story for this month.