I finally got a new hard drive for my computer, something that was definitely needed. Going from 20GB to 60 will be liberating. Hopefully it will allow me to get more pictures online as I previously didn't have enough space for the working files. But, things never go as planned.

The first issue that I ran into was the fact that the Disk Utility in Mac OS X doesn't handle the Ubuntu ISOs. These seems like a major quality control oversight on the part of Apple as the program gets a segmentation fault. I submitted two bugs on it trying different things. Luckily, I found this blog entry which recommended using Firestarter FX to get around the problem. (which worked after one coaster)

Ubuntu installed flawlessly, and I didn't use XFS again after having so many problems on my last install. Now I tried to restore my data off my external drive. First pass, I messed up tar, not the end of the world, except the way that I found it. I found it by trying to undo my Subversion repository and getting a cryptic error. In my case this error meant that the revision file was truncated, but Subversion gave me no help in finding that. Once I found it, and did a proper restore, I got through most of the issues. Now I have another.

Now it seems that a later revision has a malformed delta. Bother. Again, subversion provided no useful information, but I've found the revision number and the delta that seems to be the issue. All in all, I don't think that subversion is that robust. Not that it looses data, but more from the perspective that there is no help when there is an error. I'm not very impressed. I'm sure I'll have more later.


posted Aug 16, 2005 | permanent link