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[Mackenzie Morgan]

heh We started about the same time then.  I think it was July 13 when I got
my computer and messed up dual-booting and ended up a full-time Linux user
sort of by mistake (that was a good mistake).  I still haven't learned my
lesson, by the way.  I messed up dual booting my mom's computer too, so
she's all-Ubuntu too.  This is quad-booted (Fedora, Sabayon, Edgy, Feisty)
just dandy, but I think it's a sign that I should set up empty partitions
and THEN install the OSes after partitioning, not install Windows,
partition, install Ubuntu.  I've almost always got a gnome-terminal open
doing something too.  There's 3 open right now for my kiba-dock compilation
attempts (one for getting more packages, one for compiling dependencies, one
for compiling kiba...I want to be able to look at multiple at once to
compare, so it's not being done in tabs).

By the way, I have an external drive that's the same size as my internal.
dd is a good copying tool.  It copies entire disks or partitions
block-by-block.  If you wanted to copy the first partition of your internal
drive to the first of the external to have a perfect backup (and if it's all
one partition, this means you have boot and everything so you can boot from
that external hard drive too), you could do (from live cd):
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1


On 5/7/07, Brandon Peterman <brpeterman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I installed Ubuntu for the first time in July 2006. Yeah, not so long ago.
> I'm still a newbie.
>
> I'd been hearing about the wonders of GNU/Linux and the FOSS community for
> some time prior to then, mainly through an acquaintance on another online
> community. This guy's a real piece of work: he spends half of his time
> preaching the benefits of free software and the other half demonstrating his
> academic prowess. Oh, and this guy's about 16 years old. Big ego. Beyond
> him, I was also interested in Linux because of my work with Web development.
> I knew most modern Web servers ran on Linux, so I was naturally curious
> about what it was all about.
>
> Back to July 2006: My family had just purchased a big old economy 160 GB
> external HDD so we could back up our Windows installation and reformat
> without losing critical files. Overkill, I know, but it was cheap. Anyway, I
> figured I could take some of that extra space and run another OS,
> specifically this "Linux" I had been hearing so much about. I headed over to
> Distrowatch, browsed around a bit, and somehow settled on Ubuntu. I'm not
> sure why I picked Ubuntu; maybe it was advertised as being exceptionally
> newbie-friendly. Now, though, I'm glad I picked it; the Ubuntu commity is
> simply superb.
>
> I grabbed a Dapper ISO from the Web and ran the install without a problem.
> After booting it up for the first time, I probably said something along the
> lines of, "Wow!... Now what?"
>
> The first thing I did was pop open Firefox. It worked great, but it was
> missing all the plugins I had become used to in my Windows install. I
> launched myself into the Web and found thousands of How-To guides for
> installing this and that, and only a few of them ever worked. This was my
> first exposure to the command line, and you would have cringed at what I
> might have been doing to my computer. Nobody should have told me about sudo
> until at least a month later. :P
>
> So here I am, ten months later, a little less newbish. I can confidently
> use the command line without destroying any important files (my
> gnome-terminal window is rarely closed), I can manage a network between
> Windows and Linux, and I'm even running a separate Xubuntu Apache server in
> my basement. Fun times.
>
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-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
Linux User # 432169
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff
Hey, type this in the terminal!  It's really fun!
apt-get moo
then try
aptitude moo
and
aptitude -v moo
just keep adding v's to that and watch it change
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