-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why waste all of this time? I am very comfortable with the repair console, limited as it is. It is actually faster for me boot with knoppix, copy the files that I need (since nearly everything of importance is stored on my fileserver at home, so there is not much on my windows box). I then reinstalled with a slipstreamed XP cd.
For an even nicer tool, check out http://www.altiris.com They make a software virtualization product (free for personal use, but the really cool stuff is in its AD integration of the enterprise version). Really cuts down on the time needed to re-install all of your apps. This has nothing to do with linux, except that I build software images in VMware with host OS as linux... that does not even get me close to being on topic :) At the end of the day, troubleshooting windows is not worth the time and effort expended. For most of my clients I have disk images (ghost or partimage). When a client machine is having trouble, it takes 30 minutes to restore the image. All windows does for me is play games and remind me how much I like Linux. One more thing, the link did not work for me with the "*" around it. I am using thunderbird on windows right now. I think it looked fine on thunderbird under linux. Weird. Anyway, if you could figure out how to not do that, it would be great. Cheers, Mitchell Brown wrote: > Next time your Windows box gets into trouble -- you might try this > *http://tinyurl.com/qg59a* > > On 4/21/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be lying if I said I had not done that before. It is almost a > shame that we learn better through mistakes :) > > At least backing up /etc is a lot easier than trying to backup your > registry before making changes. I just finished reinstalling my lone > windows machine after a windows update went bad (BSOD even when booting > into safe mode with command prompt). > > I have a script kicking around that I used to use that takes snapshots > every couple of hours. I will send it along when I find it. I now use > backuppc but this is probably not the easiest to configure for new users > (or experienced ones for that matter). > > Mitchell Brown wrote: >>>> What do you think :( >>>> No.. darn .. I totally forgot. >>>> >>>> On 4/21/06, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> You did back up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf before making changes... right? >>>> >>>> Mitchell Brown wrote: >>>>>>> I tried gettng it going in my FC5 and I ended up breaking Xorg > :( and >>>>>>> hosing the install... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 4/21/06, Dan Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>>>> Nick Wiltshire wrote: >>>>>>>>> Until recent discussions on this list I hadn't heard much about XGL >>>> but >>>>>>>> I've >>>>>>>>> been watching demo videos and drooling on my keyboard. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> One question - all the examples I've seen are Gnome. Is it/will it > be >>>>>>>> possible >>>>>>>>> to see some of these effects in KDE as well? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> YES! I have it running on Kubuntu Dapper as we speak. Google XGL >>>>>>>> compiz and Kubuntu. I hear the Gentoo guys have it going as well, > but I >>>>>>>> found some good howtos for Kubuntu with KDE+KDM. The games run a bit >>>>>>>> slow but that may be a config issue. I just run a second instamce of > X >>>>>>>> on tty8. The install was just apt-get "packages" and bend a few >>>> configs. >>>>>>>> It should be possible with any distro that is packaging XORG 7x. as > 6.9 >>>>>>>> won't do it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> All the best, Dan >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> clug-talk mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>>>>>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>>>>>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> clug-talk mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>>>>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>>>>> **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> clug-talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>>> **Please remove these lines when replying >> _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFESRQ/wRXgH3rKGfMRAnPRAJ9wU/V5DytilnNCZhY7PO0H1A+e/wCfbI5r f8UYntrI3kM471QfVCQcFN0= =c2Ei -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
