Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 16:23:22 CDT 2014
Hans, I read them all as a child. On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Hans-Christian Andersen < hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur