[dba-Tech] Low-Level Format

Hans,

Yeah, read me a fairy tale in keeping with your namesake. Tell me that it
shall all work out beautifully in the end, if only I persist through the
MSadversities. All will be beautiful if only I swallow the (which was it,
blue or red?) pill.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Hans-Christian Andersen <
hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote:

> Back in the day when I used to be a Windows user, there was an awesome
> boot loader that handled dual booting fantabulously. I forget it’s name
> though. For some reason I keep thinking partition magic, but I’m not sure.
> maybe that was just a partitioning tool and, in any case, it’s been
> discontinued.
>
> Speaking of dual booting Windows & Linux, I never used to have a problem
> with any of the distros & grub. But, saying that, I haven’t tried it on
> Vista or any of the more recent versions of Windows. Quite likely,
> Microsoft has done something to bugger it up. I do recall that Windows had
> a nasty habit of removing grub if it ever booted up and ran through some
> filesystem checks.
>
> I guess the best solution is the one you have, which is having a boot
> loader on a USB drive that boots up a local install of linux. Shouldn’t
> have to be that way though!
>
> - Hans
>
>
> On Apr 21, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hi Arthur:
> >
> > I really like the BullZip product line. When I first looked at it, it
> was a pay product with a lot of limitations. There was a demo version that
> would run but only create the first hundred records in each table. It
> worked just fine as I would then just go and manually export and import the
> data.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 9:56:16 AM
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Low-Level Format
> >
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > What I have decided to do is dedicate a 32GB thumb drive to the Linux
> > install. I have checked the BIOS and discovered that I can specify the
> > boot-order to USB then CD/DVD and finally hard disk. One of the hard
> disks
> > in my old squeeze is 250GB so I'm going to partition it into 3 pieces,
> one
> > Ext2, one swap and the rest NTFS. Then, I hope, when I install Linux
> again,
> > I'll tell it to use the swap partition for Swap, and use the Ext2
> partition
> > for data storage.
> >
> > On a side note, there's a free utility called MS-Access-to-MySQL
> available
> > from BullZip.com that does just what its title says. It will inhale any
> > Access database and then create its equivalent in your MySQL
> installation.
> > I've done this numerous times and it works like a charm. From there it's
> a
> > cinch to copy the Access FE to a new name and then redirect the copy to
> > look at MySQL instead of the Access BE. BullZip has two other similar
> > utilities which convert Access databases to SQL Server and Postgres.
> These
> > are Windows utilities but once you've got the databases into your Windows
> > MySQL then it's a cinch to copy the files into the Linux installation.
> The
> > folks at BullZip have done their homework: pesky things like data-type
> > conversion are automatic and painless. For anybody wishing to port their
> > Access databases to MySQL, BullZip has my hearty endorsement.
> >
> > Arthur
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-- 
Arthur