Direct MP3 Download: Linux For The Rest Of Us #138 – Win Linux Training
A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux!
With the DoorToDoorGeek aka Steve McLaughlin and Cody Cooper
Episode 138 Show Notes
Basic Basic – Gaming on Linux is real, but does need time
(http://store.steampowered.
MOG – Episode 7 – Don’t Starve
(http://milesofgaming.com/
Summer Sale – July 11 – July 22 Summer Getaway Sale.
(http://store.steampowered.
PrivateEyePi – a DIY home alarm system – PrivateEyePi is an open, configurable, automatable home alarm system that you can build and program yourself.
(http://www.raspberrypi.org/
(http://www.projects.
Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program – Stop the American government from spying on you by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services.
“proof” of why I hate the term “the best” – The Best Of Linux Software
(http://www.makeuseof.com/
Ex-Google Man Brings Linux to World of Networking – For years, Google successfully kept a cone of silence around its efforts to fashion a new breed of network switch that could more efficiently shuttle information across the massive data centers that underpin its web empire. It still won’t discuss the particulars of this hardware, but Rivers is one of the few voices willing to provide a small window into what the company has done with its computer networks – and why. (http://www.wired.com/
Win a Linux training course in 300 words or less – Attention Linux developers: If you’ve ever wanted to take a class with the Linux Foundation but have been held back by enrollment costs, then here’s your chance to win a scholarship.
(http://opensource.com/
(http://training.
Ivideon Server for Linux – Want to make Linux computer a video surveillance server? No problems here! Ivideon Server for Linux has same features as Ivideon Server for Windows abd Mac OS X.
(http://www.ivideon.com/
Matthew Gardiner writes:
Every single Linux podcast I listen to has had email, or callers baffled by dual booting, managing partitions, and every solution I have heard has been overly complicated. I seem to remember Cody saying he actually moves the SATA cable to the drive he wants to boot from. While that works, there is an easier way to accomplish this, and the end result is much less pet hair on your motherboard…
The first thing to do on a new install is replace grub2 with grub legacy. Remember Grub Legacy? It was simple, configurable, and did the job. Grub 2 is like Gnome 3 – it solves a problem that never existed…but I digress…
Grub legacy, along with the SuperGrub Boot disc, allows you to not only chose your default boot partition, but have grub on ALL partitions in case one goes south. When you boot from the SuperGrub Boot disc, you can change the default boot partition on the fly, and the change sticks until you change it. If you have Windows as well, you never have to worry about breaking the ever so fragile MBR if you use these two tools. I PENTA-boot, running Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Puppy Linux, Windows 7, and “Linux Flavor of the month”. I have been doing this since 2006, and through countless upgrades, reinstalls, and trying distros on my 3rd hard drive, the bootloader has never been lost nor broken. I even changed computers back in March of last year, and kept all my distros in tact on my desktop. This March I got a new laptop, and did the same thing.
Creating partitions is a cakewalk using a single tool that you already have: gparted. For a fresh install, simply partition the disk from the live CD before you begin the install, and set the bootloader to run from the root partition of the distro you are installing. Then use the super grub boot CD to boot from the new install. Then remove grub2, and reinstall grub legacy. Boot again from the older super grub CD (the one made for grub legacy), and you can change the boot partition to default to the new distro’s location. If Windows is on the system, it leaves the MBR untouched, and Windows will be in the grub menu as well, chainloading to the Windows loader.
If you need to change the drive or partition location of Windows or Linux, or move either to a larger or smaller drive or partition, there is an INFINITELY easier way to do it than fiddling with the DD command or Clonezilla, both of which can lead to disaster if you are not careful or familiar with them. Again, gparted to the rescue! Simply click the partition you are going to move, then either right click or select from the menu button the option “copy”. Then navigate to the new drive/partition and select “paste”. This will byte-copy the entire drive to the new drive or partition, and you can even resize it before you apply! It EVEN gives it the same UUID, so grub will work without error, assuming you are using UUID in lieu of sda1, etc. to identify your partitions. If you are then inclined to keep both installs, you can use tune2fs to assign a new UUID to the old partition, then copy/paste it into the grub menu so you can boot off of either. I have used this so I can have 2 identical installs of Ubuntu, then beat the snot out of one of them, testing all kinds of crazy things until I break it, and I have also used it to make a backup copy of a perfectly tweaked system to a fresh hard drive. The possibilities are endless. I have attached the commands to revert to grub legacy from a post I found when Grub2 came out several years ago.
Sorry this took so long to send to you.
Keep up the awesome work!
Matthew
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