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Recovering Linux – 6

Posted on Tuesday, 25 September 2012 by Lorin

This is the sixth installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post and second post for the preliminaries, the third post for diagnostics and disassembly, the fourth post for reassembly and hardware checkout, and the fifth post which … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 5

Posted on Friday, 7 September 2012 by Lorin

This is the fifth installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post and second post for the preliminaries, the third post for diagnostics and disassembly, the fourth post for reassembly and hardware checkout…  Disk partitioning is one … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 4

Posted on Friday, 7 September 2012 by Lorin

This is the fourth installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post and second post for the preliminaries, and the third post for diagnostics and disassembly… Okay, I think I’m ready to power-up my … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 3

Posted on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 by Lorin

This is the third installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post and second post for the preliminaries… My PC-A system’s hardware problem identified  — disk drive sda failed  — and backup resources verified… … Continue reading →

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Recovering Linux – 2

Posted on Sunday, 26 August 2012 by Lorin

This is the second installment of a series of posts to document “How I recovered my Linux systems…”  See the first post for foundation and background. So, we had two hard drive failures in two different Linux boxes, nearly simultaneously. … Continue reading →

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“If It Ain’t Broke…” — concluded

Posted on Wednesday, 9 March 2011 by Lorin

More Steps to Upgrading My DSL Service Some folks won’t care, but just to bring this little saga to a conclusion for those of you who do… The beginning of this story was posted last Thursday evening, when indeed the … Continue reading →

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“If It Ain’t Broke…”

Posted on Thursday, 3 March 2011 by Lorin

Or How I Upgraded my DSL Service in 12 Not-So-Easy Steps [This is a rather long posting, and a bit geek-techie.  It’s an narrative of my experience with a DSL service upgrade, so I hope it has value for other … Continue reading →

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