The Crap Shooter

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Re: The Crap Shooter

Post by Zeratul2k » August 1st, 2007, 10:37 pm

I read somewhere that in WWII the soldiers used a kind of "hot patches" that used glue to keep the wounds closed while in the battlefield or something like that. Don't really remember, I read that years ago.

@gpa: What is the new HDD's file system? If it's NTFS you'll need to download a package to write files to it. PM me your linux distro's name and version if you want me to help.
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Post by oldwrench » August 2nd, 2007, 3:15 am

Thd drive was partitioned and formated to ex3, I think, used a linux partitioning program. The drive is there, it's partitioned and formatted, I just can't change the permissions to let me write to it, it's read only. I see where I'm supposed to write a line in the fstab file, but it won't let me, says I'm not the owner, another permission thing. I followed the steps in several forums, I get the drive mounted but can't do anything but read. !)!@*&$(*#!)*&$(*&#!)(*$)& Linux!!!!
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Re: The Crap Shooter

Post by Dinky » August 2nd, 2007, 7:16 am

Well, since this is the crap shooter........
HOLY CRAP!!!!! In case anyone doesn't know, a major 8 lane interstate in Minneapolis, MN collapsed during rushhour tonight into the Mississippi river.......
:sob:
I used to live in an apartment RIGHT NEXT to that bridge, have driven over it countless times...Thank GOD it's summer and construction season--it was down to 1 lane on each side for resurfacing purposes, so the estimate is only 50 or so cars were on the bridge at the time of collapse instead of 6 times that number.
Unfortunately for my poor frazzled nerves, I first heard about it at work stuck in a c-section....so of course I panic thinking "My brother-in-law drives over that bridge for work!!!" and I couldn't find out if he was or wasn't on it until over 3 hours later!!!!!!
Everyone we know in the Twin Cities is okay...but it's so horrible and so SURREAL to see someplace you know and lived a major disaster...all those people....
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Post by oldwrench » August 2nd, 2007, 2:10 pm

The TV coverage of it looked like a major earthquake hit. last report I saw, six had died and 38 were hospitalized with injuries. Only guardian angels could have kept it to this low a number. There was a bus with nearly 60 children on the brige, none were badly injured. The bridge was built in 1967 and had a complete inspection in 04. They don't know yet why it failed. In a normal day over 140,000 vehicles cross that bridge. I'm sure you can find the story on any news site, I know yahoo has it. Our prayers go out for those affected by this.
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Re: The Crap Shooter

Post by JHawkNH » August 2nd, 2007, 3:18 pm

As of this morning the offical word I have heard was there are only 4 fatalitys so far, but that 20 people are still missing. I really hope that they find all 20 alive and well.

If anyone wants I can put up a link to a video of the bridge collasping. A security camera near the bridge caught the collaspe on video.
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Re: The Crap Shooter

Post by Sakura » August 2nd, 2007, 10:04 pm

The brand new news is, it was not a terrorist attack.

Here have some pictures.

Scary...! :omg:
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Re: The Crap Shooter

Post by Sakura » August 2nd, 2007, 10:13 pm

oldwrench wrote:I get the drive mounted but can't do anything but read. !)!@*&$(*#!)*&$(*&#!)(*$)& Linux!!!!
In a console window:

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sudo vi /etc/fstab
Add a line:

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/dev/sda2     /home/     ext3     defaults,errors=remount-ro     0 0
Save the file. In a console then type:

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sudo mount /home
You can also *try* mounting it manually:

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sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /home
Of course I assume you have installed a copy of Ubuntu 7.04, there's no reason going for less.

If it's still read-only after this, the file system is 'unclean' and has to be checked thorougly before it can be mounted. Type 'man fsck' to see the command.
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Re: The Crap Shooter

Post by Sakura » August 2nd, 2007, 10:15 pm

Zeratul2k wrote:@gpa: What is the new HDD's file system? If it's NTFS you'll need to download a package to write files to it. PM me your linux distro's name and version if you want me to help.
Ubuntu comes with a working Ntfs-3g install "out of the box" so all windows drives are read-write.
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Post by Zeratul2k » August 3rd, 2007, 1:16 am

Not in my case, it seems. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions came without write support in NTFS, they could only read. I have to go into synaptic every time I install and download the ntfs-3g package.
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Re: The Crap Shooter

Post by oldwrench » August 3rd, 2007, 3:33 am

I have the same problem Zera, ntfs is read only. Sakura, are your instructions for an internal drive? My drive shows as /dev/hdb.
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