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Huh. I like Ubuntu myself. Version 10, not version 11 (the new desktop is just weird). Only bad thing on Ubuntu is, the volume control is linear, not properly logarithmic. Takes some getting used to, but it's not a deal-breaker. Debian had some weird bugs: after the third hibernate, it would crash, and Flash video wouldn't work in fullscreen. Fedora (I forget which version) would only run gedit and Flash video from root (?!), and clamscan wouldn't work. (I still use my XP partition for my tax preparation software.)

You know, you could save some money by buying a used computer system. I paid about $80 for my Pentium 4 system (which had XP), and it screams on Ubuntu. (Not having a Microsoft antivirus program in the background helps some too, I bet.) The most challenging thing I ask it to do is use mencoder to re-process .mp4 videos (from my camera) to .mp2 for burning to DVD. Oh, and there seems to be some sort of bug in dvdauthor that makes it fail on Linux Mint (so I had to copy the files to my wife's laptop running Ubuntu, run dvdauthor there, then copy back to my Mint system for burning the DVD). I'm removing Mint and installing Ubuntu 10.

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OK: i will byte..TWELVE partitions?? When the standard, common HD systems used since 1980 allow a MAXimum of _four_?? How due de do dat??

On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:45:53 -0800 (PST)) it happened Michael wrote in :

Yes, Ubuntu is gettiug used to. But the way it goes here is that in the shortest time it will be 'modified', I only needed it as a starting point as all hardware is recognised. From the video POV I wrote much of the apps myself, and need fast processing, I hope I was not mistaking selecting the higher performance Radeon because it supports H264 and other encodings + decodings in hardware (no CPU load). The dual core allows me to run one for video processing, while being able to do full speed compiling etc. Had to stop last night, falling asleep, started to make silly mistakes. Yes dvdautor, been a while, I contributed the subtitle and multichannel audio IIRC. I use it. But it has changed a lot, not following it closely, at that time it was a great programming experience to get those things working as a first in Linux. I normally run (like now) an old totally modified grml distro, replaced the xorg stuff with xfree, so I will have to look again at the Ubunto as it has xorg I think. It is nice to have 750 GB on the laptop too, I ordered the latest Debian (sqeeze I think), see how that does in 64 bits, I am at my download limit with Vodafone mobile, so I ordered the whole DVD lot by mail. Will be lots of new kernel compiles, have to get the satellite DVB-S2 HD thingy working to. There are some other cool ideas I have with this thing, so far I found it extremely pleasant to work with, backlit keyboard, so the lettering will not come off like on my current Logitech..

Need to get xine and mplayer up, copy some videos ...

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Sure, up to 16, easy.

Maximum of four primary partitons, yes.

Not heard of extended partitions? Been around for years. Pack many logical partitions into a single primary partition, been around for years. Look it up.

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4 PRIMARY partitions. 1 could be a logical, allowing a number of partitions to be made within it.

There is a guy out there with 145 operating system on his machine, and he discusses HD partitioning in great detail.

On a sunny day (Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:05:44 -0800) it happened Robert Baer wrote in :

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I dunno, something like this:

panteltje10 ~ # fdisk /dev/sda

Command (m for help): Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x1048db7f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 13 144 1048576+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 144 13198 104857600+ 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda4 13198 91202 626564974+ 5 Extended Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda5 13198 26252 104857600+ 83 Linux Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda6 26252 39306 104857600+ 83 Linux Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda7 39306 52361 104857600+ 83 Linux Partition 7 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda8 52361 65415 104857600+ 83 Linux Partition 8 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda9 65415 78469 104857600+ 83 Linux Partition 9 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda10 78469 79774 10485760+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition 10 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda11 79774 91202 91791153+ 83 Linux Partition 11 does not start on physical sector boundary.

Command (m for help): Command action a toggle a bootable flag b edit bsd disklabel c toggle the dos compatibility flag d delete a partition l list known partition types m print this menu n add a new partition o create a new empty DOS partition table p print the partition table q quit without saving changes s create a new empty Sun disklabel t change a partition's system id u change display/entry units v verify the partition table w write table to disk and exit x extra functionality (experts only)

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(ctrl C pressed) So you make an extended partition (4 here), and add new partitions in that space. Will probably change that partition ID to 82 (Linux swap) for 1 and 2 later. It is now copying files from an external Seagate 1TB USB.

The original 1982 standard allowed 4 partitions, each being primary or extended, and any number of logical drives within extended partitions, of which the OS of the time could use 24 since A and B were floppy drives.

OS/2 and Linux long had the ability to boot from a logical drive as the OS drive. Microsoft OS's were limited to booting from primary partitions, where there can be only one drive on the partition, but, as usual, got the ability to boot from logical drives about 10 years after the others.

Boot managers can allow more than 4 primary partitions, by modifying the partition table according to the choice made at startup. I don't think modern boot managers have that ability any more since all the popular OS's can now use logical drives.

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1TB Hitachi still has 512 byte sectors, to my surprise.

On a sunny day (Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:10:14 -0500) it happened "Tom Del Rosso" wrote in :

Talking about boot managers, I had a near disaster here with this. My Slackware DVD arrived from

seems to be in France, so fast, just 2 days to here? Anyways I installed it on partition 11, with swap on 10. I did not install Volkerding's 'Lilo', as I already have grub, so I booted into grub. Now it was late at night, and actually I wanted to sleep. Volkerding made a link in /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinux-huge-2.6.37.6 kernel. difficult to remember, so I did to just type linux /boot/vmlinuz in grub, thinking "Not 100% sure grub likes links..." Typed 'boot', and the disaster happened. Keyboard started flashing, nothing worked, not even the power button, battery was fully charged... Samsung saved on a real reset button too... So the strategy that occurred to me was let it run until battery is empty, and go to sleep. But as I did not notice fans running (it has 2), and was not sure it was not burning a CPU, or drawing huge currents from that big battery pack, going to sleep and having your place burned down on second thought was not an acceptable idea. So now what? Open it, look for a hidden reset. of course this was late at night, and I did not have the right screwdriver that fitted the 11 screws. Found one that fitted but needed pliers to turn, later found that Samsung added some locktight or whatever.,.. Anyways took it apart, it was still running,,, To unplug a 6 cell battery connector on a running system is perhaps taking changes too, but I was not sure battery monitoring and low voltage shutdown was still working, so I unplugged it (battery packs are expensive). Plugged it in again, and it booted normally after reiserfs journaling fixed it. But now it was midnight, and I wanted to put it back together, but the display would no longer open (closed note book) after I folded it down so I could put the bottom back on. From a mechanical POV they really made the most feeble thing I have seen so far. Gave up, had a good look this morning, could not see why it would not open, did not want the break the LCD, then had this extremely bright idea: "If it is all so feeble and weak, maybe it fits together in such a way that whatever obstruct the thing is hold back if I just force the bottom on. I did, it worked. There is somebody there who designs housing with a 3 D CAD program who never uses what he designs. To remove the battery pack you have to remove the harddisk first, usual transparent foil flimsy cables and connectors, Anyways, I got it all working both in Ubuntu and Slackware, and also via HDMI to my 46 inch in the living room. Ubuntu boots with the Radeon graphics, Slackware (older kernel) boots with the Intel graphics... Slackware has all the players (mplayer xine). Now for some programming... Anyways I think boot manager grub does not like soft links. Maybe it just jumped somewhere on disk where the link is and took that for the kernel. These days we have grub2, I was familiar with grub1, so before testing again (a bit like jumping from a plane without a parachute and surviving, and then doing it again to see how exactly it worked), so I spend some time reading info grub(2). after half a thousand pages I gave up and decided to take my chances. It worked if you specified not the link but the real kernel. Then I had a look at menu.lst that now is called grub.cfg, and made my own entry manually. It works. Bootmanagers? Hello :-) Then removed that ms sticker... It was very hard to get that off, had to use turpentine.

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Keyboard lights flashing... sounds like a kernel panic. (Similar to the Blue Screen of Death on Windows.)

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Try some biodiesel next time! It dissolves all sorts of stuff. XD

Michael

NOPE. Only ONE extended partition can be created. (on an MS DOS initialization).

Boot managers do NOT edit your partition tables. That is a HUGE vulnerability. THAT is the reason any that ever did are gone.

Boot managers HIDE partitions and TRADE volume assignments. THAT is why they were able to have an OS boot from a volume on a non-primary partition. If you are making your boot loader modify your partition table at boot time, you are breaking the most basic rules. Huge vulnerability.

My next drive will be a laptop form factor Seagate hybrid @ 750GB with a 64MB cache and an 8GB flash drive incorporated into it, which caches the most used files (and more) on an SATA 3 platform. It gives SSHD like performance with HD like storage capacity.

On a sunny day (Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:30:37 -0800 (PST)) it happened Michael wrote in :

As I mentioned before, I am at my download limit for this month. All that stuff.

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Oh, it doesn't dissolve plastic! Or... at least, not very rapidly... ha. Once there was some... gum residue? or something... on a DVD. So I got my jar of homemade biodiesel, dissolved away the gum, and the DVD played finally. Our guests were impressed... ahahaha.

Michael

Hint: Many modern computers will perform a hard turn-off if you press the power button and then hold it pressed for several seconds. With the "quality" of some software and OSes that is a very important feature.

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The fact that gum ended up on a DVD would impress me entirely the other way. How a library owner could let such an event occur is unbelievable.

Would have been easier to remove by simply freezing it.

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or you could use GooGone. I prefer the liquid,not the spray. or even plain old vegetable oil,no need to convert to biodiesel.

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You should be careful with the Goo Gone. I have seen different formulations.

Usually, it is merely citrus oil. Some I have seen, however, actually contain solvents, and they will attack the polymers on a CD or DVD.