Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Wed Apr 23 14:08:24 CDT 2014
I regret to tell you that many (most?) Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales are fairly gruesome. ;) - Hans > On Apr 21, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > Arthur > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com