Yet more delays... but finally!

Spent most of today testing the duplicated drive and chatting on tabletpcbuzz about cases and battery-charger adapter-plates. Boring!

Turns out that somehow I managed to dupe my drive perfectly, and also leave only the same amount of space free on the new, larger drive as was on the old drive, about 37GB -- when there should have been something like 170. I seemed to have tripled the used data. Weird. So I had to redo the partition, but now it reports the correct amount. I'm working from that drive as I type, and it's showing oodles of free space -- and it seems to be working just fine. No data loss at all. Well, except what I changed during that 10-minute window on the prior dupe. Just a password and some session info. No big loss -- I actually remember the password.

While I was in the partition editor, I added room to my root partition -- plenty of room all around now. It's kinda like getting a new apartment, and setting it up with all your old stuff. Both familiar and strange... I've had this NX9600 for three years or so. I like it, keep upgrading it (both on purpose and as a side-effect, like now) and will miss it if I sell it, as I ought to. Sniff.

Anyhow, you don't care about my internal life and affection for an impersonal gadget. Or, you shouldn't.

So, shortly, and with much fanfare -- HUZZAH! -- I will wipe my 7200rpm Hitachi drive and mount it in the TC1100. I promise to say "huzzah", but I don't know if I'll shout it.

The plan starts with this idea: I'm going to start with Ubuntu 9.10 minimal, and build up. I'll be using this series of blog entries as my inspiration. Then we move on to the hard stuff, like wacom, avoiding all Gnome dependencies, and etc.

We're off!

Well, I am. More than just a little.

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