{"id":69,"date":"2001-06-20T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-20T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2001-06-20T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2001-06-20T15:55:00","slug":"computer-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2001\/06\/20\/computer-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last night I tried once again to get my machine working&#8230; made some <i>very stupid<\/i> mistakes (i.e. forgetting the computers start counting at 0, not 1) and managed to wipe out the entire contents of my 20GB hard drive&#8230; which contained (if you remember) my entire MP3 collection.  The bright side of this is that it forces me to reencode all of my CDs again, this time I can even turn on error correction, thus saving me the task of having to listen to all of my MP3s to determine which ones had blips and skips in them, a project which I had completely ignored for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>After fixing the mistake though, I managed to get the Linux machine booting with the new install of RedHat&#8230; and lo and behold&#8230; the network cards aren&#8217;t working.  It&#8217;s just one thing after another.  To recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to get Microsoft Networking working for all the computers, and have Habitrail be the central file and printer repository, so I\n<li>Try to install Samba, which seems to work, but I can&#8217;t get working because the printer isn&#8217;t working, so I\n<li>Play with the machine for quite a bit before I realize that I didn&#8217;t compile parallel port support into the kernel, so I\n<li>Configure and compile a new kernel, which doesn&#8217;t work because of some issues with modules, so I\n<li>Continue tweaking the kernel, and eventually give up and try to install a clean install of RedHat, so I\n<li>Physically switch the two hard drives, so the \/dev\/hda will be the blank 30GB drive, which doesn&#8217;t install because one of the other partitions wasn&#8217;t unmounted properly, so I\n<li>Flounder for a while trying to figure out which drive it is, but eventually find it, and reinstall RedHat, which after an hour decides not to boot at all, so I\n<li>Try to boot off of a boot disk, which doesn&#8217;t work, so I\n<li>Try to figure out why the disk isn&#8217;t booting, it turns out to be a bad floppy drive, so I\n<li>Borrow a floppy drive from Luke and swap it out; it works, so I boot and fix the file system and install RedHat, but make the stupid mistake described above, so I\n<li>Spend two hours trying to figure out why the computer is booting form the wrong (i.e. the old) hard drive, where it turns out <i>because I inadvertently told it to<\/i>. (HDD1 is the <i>second<\/i> Hard drive, not the first), so I\n<li>Switch it to HDD0 and boot, and it boots, but doesn&#8217;t recognize one of the network cards for some reason, so I\n<li>Try to just get one of them working, but neither works, so I\n<li>Go to bed.\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing in <i>all my free time<\/i> since Sunday night.  I have made zero forward progress, unless you count upgrading from a working RedHat 6.2 install to a not-working RedHat 7.0 install and wiping out my MP3s progress.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, July 1st is rapidly approaching, and I really really really should be spending my time packing and moving the remaining stuff out of my old apartment.  And as Anime Expo approaches, I&#8217;m going to have less and less free time.  I think I&#8217;m going to designate this weekend as a &#8220;All moving, nothing but moving&#8221; weekend, and get it all done.  No fun for me on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last night I tried once again to get my machine working&#8230; made some very stupid mistakes (i.e. forgetting the computers start counting at 0, not 1) and managed to wipe out the entire contents of my 20GB hard drive&#8230; which contained (if you remember) my entire MP3 collection. The bright side of this is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2001\/06\/20\/computer-hell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Computer Hell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-technical-difficulty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}