by Dave | May 16, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Impossible? No- just a lot of work. Since I’m not running a kernel with ext4 support anymore, I had to do this to get my home partition into ext3: boot into a livecd with ext4 support image the partition to a firewire drive using sudo dd if=/dev/[partition]...
by Dave | May 15, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I’ve (finally) installed openSUSE. Since my home partition is separate, I’ve left it unmounted for now till I know whether I want to keep openSUSE- and if I need to downgrade from ext4 to ext3 on that partition (if that’s even possible). Why try it?...
by Dave | May 2, 2009 | Tinker Blog
My instructions from Intrepid turned out to be unnecessarily complex in Jaunty (probably was in Intrepid too). I just had to copy the firmware files from the original CD (still have it), moved them now to my home partition, and add the file reference to the...
by Dave | Apr 21, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I believe it’s crazy to do an upgrade. It’s just safer to backup important things and reinstall from scratch. This may be odious and time consuming but you’re just more likely to keep around some misconfigured or outdated packages if you just...
by Dave | Apr 15, 2009 | Improving Apps
Yesterday, I wrote about getting yourself a ‘Donate’ button. If you haven’t, please do so. Now you have a donate button. Even link to the donation form from your app so that users that get your app with a distro will know how to give back. What now?...
