Upgrade time

Fedora 8 is out which means it’s time to upgrade radinfo from FC 6 and stick in that new 250 GB hard drive for some added capacity. It’ll mean a few hours of downtime, but it’s a much needed upgrade.

So here’s the plan:

  • Install the new hard drive
  • Install Fedora 8 to the new drive from the LiveCD
  • Boot off the new drive
  • Reinstall the required packages
  • Restore stuff from the original drives

Should be a piece of cake.

Given my past record, it will be a piece of crumbly concrete cake.

Head start on the season

Hey, neighbours up the street. November’s only just getting started. Isn’t it a little early to be busting out the Christmas lawn decorations?

We can rebulid it

So my weekend was spent backing up the Franken-computer at home so I could reformat and reinstall Windows to see if it would help with some performance issues I was having. Not sure it helped with performance, but I got rid of a lot of crap collecting on the system.
Took most of Saturday and a good chunk of Sunday to get all the essential software installed off CD or downloaded, along with moving a few things back and forth between drives so the backup files weren’t fragmented into a billion pieces (and thus causing everything else to fragment into more chunks on that drive).
Still have a few things that need to be re-installed, and stuff from the PDA that needs to be restored to the computer. Should have the computer back to a usable state after today.
Bleh.