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Downloading it all now mate. Once I get VMWare installed, I'll give this a shot :). Looks good though. Pretty sick of the constant reboots. Thank you :)

Thank you for posting :) I've found out it was sdb1, which I had originally guessed :). I then added that to my /boot/grub/device.map, like so. (sdb1) /dev/sdb1 In my menu.lst, I have this entry. title USB Boot Test chainloader (sdb1) +1 . I'll test it just now. EDIT Didn't work. A big fat error 23: problem parsing number. Or something. Damn. Ideas?

Well done dr0p. Solved (:. All joking aside, WTF.

I've installed Grub4Dos on my flash, as detailed by the shownotes on the USBMultipass ep. I then used as many variations of title USB Grub chainloader (hd1) +1 with no success. It's telling me that hd1 doesn't exist. EDIT: I've now tried adding several variations of what I expect my USB drive to appear as in /boot/grub/device.map. Still nothing. Also tried mapping hd0 to hd1 and hd1 to hd0. No success. Help?

So this is definately possible, even though my BIOS doesn't support USB booting, and my ports are only USB1? Wow.. Can you describe how I would go about doing this? I'll tinker with it myself just now, see if I can get it working myself though. Doubt I'll manage though. Do I need grub2 on my USB drive? Or on my laptop?

How could this be done? Sounds damn good though.

Wow. Even if the second Grub is located on a USB drive?

This is about a month and a half old. But damn, I can't not comment on this. Wish I'd seen this earlier. I must admit, this does scare me senseless. That article raises many valid points. If games are pushing and pushing towards photo-realism, where does it stop? At which point can't you tell between real life and a game? I must admit. This scares me personally too. I'm schitzophrenic - haven't been diagnosed, but when you start freaking out, not feeling real, feeling controlled, and depressed, you know something is wrong. I totally agree with Vako's point that our brains are building the world around us from the information being sent to our brains from our eyes, nose, ears and nerves in our hands and legs. Just like our vision - due to the lens in our eyes, everything is being sent to your retina upside-down. Your brain turns it the right way round for you. Whats great is that you can wear another set of inverting lenses infront of your eyes, so that you see everything upside down. Everything will only be upside down for a while though, until your brain clocks that everythings upside down. It then inverts that image again, so that even with this set of extra lenses, everything is okay. The scary part is when you remove those lenses, leaving only your eyes. Everything is upside down again! Anyway, this scares me witless and shitless. It's bad enough that there are really horrible people on this earth, capable of murder, rape and genocide. But the fact that maybe, quite soon, there will be a way for people to wear a headset, step into this reality, perform some really sick act, then take off the headset and be free of guilt, shame and moral decay is pretty sickening, and something that I hope will never happen.

Just remembered that the boot manager i tried was PloP. That didn't work for me though.

I only have USB1.1 ports. It's a laptop, so a Mini PCI card would be the only way to get USB2. I've seen all the segments about this USB multipass thing. It sounds ace. But my BIOS doesn't allow USB booting of any kind. Would it be possible to make a grub entry that allows USB1.1 usb booting? This would mean that I could: Choose that initial grub entry on the laptop. That would then boot to my USB Multipass drive, on which I could then choose my desired OS or tool to boot to. This just whizzed through my mind after thinking about updating to grub2. Is it possible? I've tried loading boot managers to CDs, then booting to them and trying to boot to USB, but every time it fails. This would hint that this isn't possible, but linux and linux related software has proven me wrong many times before.

+1 on my hombre dr0p. I'm an arch linux man. Running it on an old laptop, and an old desktop as a server (667MHZ celeron :o).

+1 on my holmes dr0p. I love arch Linux. Running great on an old Dell 1.8Ghz Pentium M, 512MB RAM. :)

Lol. Sounds good. Maybe Matt could branch off from his corporate network setup segment, and do a small one on some tips for a home server. I'm sure your articles will come in useful then :)

Awesome miT, that sounds great! You going to be post that up on your blog, or on the forums here? Cheers :)

Solved thanks to a reply on the Arch forums. Was a syntax problem.

From what I've gathered from that link, you'd still need to set USB as first boot device in the BIOS. I'm not sure whether your USB is even touched during boot unless specified in the BIOS, though someone could probably clear this up a little. AFAIK, forcing a computer to boot to USB without specifying USB in the BIOS is impossible. However, many computers are enabled to boot a CD first, if there is one present. Maybe using a boot manager that can be burnt to CD (I know I have a few kicking about) and some lovely-jubbly custom scripts, you could script it to redirect booting to a USB device without user input. But again, off the top of my head, could be wrong on both fronts. But I get what you mean. Id find it much easier to have some fun on a "clients" PC if I didn't have to change boot priorety in the BIOS before hand. It sure is a bit of a hassle.

Nevermind. I'm judging that by the lack of replies, this probably is'nt the forums for helping such a problem, my bad. So I posted on the Arch linux forums. Still love you guys though. ;)

50mA across your heart can kill you. But yes, it's the amperes that do the killin'.

+1 with my home-grown, dr0p. We learn some VB6 in school. Damn simple stuff.

So I've got this wee server going. Its crap, but it's extra storage. Im trying to backup my linux laptop to it. Maybe not everything, but the most important stuff. To do it, I'm using rsync, over SSH. I've already set up ssh keys, without a phrase to make it a little easier. A bit risque, i know, but I was failing horribly trying to set up the keychain. I somehow managed to copy my "etc" folder from my laptop to the server. I know this could have been done simply by mounting the server's HD over ssh, and copying it over, but rsync can backup stuff incrementally, backing up only the files that have been changed or added, and even deleting those than have been deleted. But now its just now working. It tell me that it's worked, but it hasnt. What am I doing wrong? I'm running many variations of this; rsync -avz -e "ssh -p 1984 root@192.168.1.68:/home /backup/laptop/ Now what this should do I "pull" the "home" directory from my laptop to my server, saving the entire directory under the "/backup/laptop" directory. But it doesnt. A quick "ls -l" just shows nothing in /backup/laptop/home. However, running the command shows a big list of the files in my /home/ directory, and even at the end tell me the upload speeds. Any ideas? It's asthough im running it with "-n" at the end, which simulates what would be copying but doesnt actually copy. Ive also tried the "push" technique, which lead to this same problem. Thanks in advance.

+1 on digip's and sparky's posts. Pull the plug. This is too far gone for a quick fix. The authorities are the only way. If you had sensitive information on there, im gathering from digip's post that you had other peoples credit card credentials, then this is really serious. Cut your loses. Pull the plug. Phone the authorities.

Hmm. Im quite looking forward to when the Android platform, or something similar, reeeaaally takes off. I know it's already out, and on a few phones, but they tend to be only one or two phones per manufacturer. I hope Android, or a similar platform, because a kind of standard in the mobile market. That would make. It should also make it easier for phones, aswell as PMPs, and computers to play nice with each other, unlike the situation just now with some mobile phones and PMPs - "you need this certain software suite to put stuff onto your device. Oh yeah, it only runs on Windows". I really hate that.

Hmm. I had that.. It's like, a "transparent" terminal, when above another window like firefox, doesnt show firefox underneath it. Instead, it shows my desktop. Its like showing me whats behind firefox, instead of firefox.

Unless they make a little compartment for the USB drive, it will stick out a little. Also, USB drives don't have a standarised size, so some stick may not fit said compartment.

Thanks for the link. But it's not working for me. I've put the "urxvt*inheritPixmap" as true, aswell as tweaking the fading and tint values. But instead of being transparent, it just shows my desktop background. Like, for instance, if I open a terminal above firefox, the terminal wouldnt show firefox, but would show part of my wallpaper. Is this the norm, or an incompatibility issue with feh setting the background and the transparency setting in ~/.Xdeaults? Sorry for diverting the thread topic.