[dba-Tech] Low-Level Format

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
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-- 
Arthur


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