Re: Crashing hard drive

2003-12-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 03:59:16PM +0900, Susie wrote: > I hought maybe you could help me ouy. My d drive crashed the other > day. I was wondering if it could be either a virus or a overloaded > drive since the main board doesnt read the free memory >

Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-07 Thread D.
--- Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> I know that this has been discussed before so I > >> apologize for asking again. I believe that my > hard > >> drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and > dirty > >> bzip2 / and will th

Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
> In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> Hi All, >> I know that this has been discussed before so I >> apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard >> drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty >> bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can >> copy it to another, then do th

Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-07 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi All, > I know that this has been discussed before so I > apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard > drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty > bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can > copy it to another, then do the bunzip2

Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-06 Thread Bradley M Alexander
I would set up some kind of backup strategy. I know its almost too late in the game to bring that up, but you may still be able to pull it off. That said, what I would suggest to make a rebuild easier, would be to capture the following: Capture your package list: dpkg --get-selections >

RE: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-06 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CRASHING HARD DRIVE > > > Hi All, > I know that this has been discussed before so I > apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard > drive is