Sunday October 30, 2005

My laptop, after quite a busy weekend, is back up and running with almost everything back-to-norm. The exercise in some ways was beneficial. My inefficiently partitioned drive is now better partitioned. 60GB Solaris, 20GB Windows. The 60GB is broken down into two roughly two 30GB slices so i can perform a live-upgrade at will. While not doing a live-upgrade, I use the "unused" slice to store miscellaneous zones, backup date, and hopefuly Qemu images. I'd rather have Windows running in Qemu, but performance is too much of a drag without the accelerator for Solaris x86.

The good news is that I didn't lose any data of value. None. Zero. Nada. Lucky. All I lost this weekend was about 6 hours of sleep, most of my hair (I had a haircut), and $140 for an 80GB 16MB Buffer toshiba laptop hard drive. OK, Sun is going to take a hit for that, but given my upcoming travel, having a working laptop is well worth it.

Time to plug back into the blogosphere and to whip out some Java code.

Update: For those windows users out there, the Solaris installer picked it up and added it automagically to the grub menu. Me-likes that quite a bit. I think this has been there for quite a while, but I haven't installed windows in eons. While not new to many of you, it's new to me.