Goodbye Debian, Hello Hell

Ok... A few quick notes... First off... DON'T do a mkdir /boot accidently, because it wipes the boot directory in the ram disk... bad idea... Beyond that...

Instruction number 8 should read "umount /mnt/mnt" not "umount /mnt"
Instruction number 14 should read "/mnt/bin/lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.conf -r /mnt" not "/mnt/sbin/lilo -v -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf -r /mnt"

Starting over from scratch SUCKS... More soon.

Rediculous...

I really should have noticed that the first disk had a lower block count than the other 7... Bad media right out of the box. Lets try again...

hackserv:/home/proto/Desktop# dd if=dettuxx_disk01.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 100.915 seconds, 14.6 kB/s

Ahhh... much better... now to see if she boots :-P

The first official epic fail.

Well... Disk 1 went into the drive, and away I went with the reboot... The name of this post was supposed to be "Goodbye Debian, Hello Hell", but upon reboot, i recieved

LI_

The activity light on the FDD went out, the cursor was blinking, and lilo never finished the LO and booted... Time to re-dd the disk and see what happens... Not a good start.

dd

Not that anyone really needs to see how the dd command works across all 8 disks, but here you go.

hackserv:~# dd if=./dettuxx_disk01.img of=/dev/fd0
2847+1 records in
2847+1 records out
1458144 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 101.165 seconds, 14.4 kB/s
hackserv:~# dd if=./dettuxx_disk02.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 101.119 seconds, 14.6 kB/s
hackserv:~# dd if=./dettuxx_disk03.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 101.119 seconds, 14.6 kB/s
hackserv:~# dd if=./dettuxx_disk04.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 102.521 seconds, 14.4 kB/s
hackserv:~# dd if=./dettuxx_disk05.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 101.321 seconds, 14.6 kB/s
hackserv:~# dd if=./dettuxx_disk06.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 101.518 seconds, 14.5 kB/s
hackserv:~# dd if=./dettuxx_disk07.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 101.314 seconds, 14.6 kB/s
hackserv:~# dd if=./dettuxx_disk08.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 101.516 seconds, 14.5 kB/s
hackserv:~#

And for thoes who don't know... A short excerpt from "man dd" (RTFM!)

NAME
dd - convert and copy a file

SYNOPSIS
dd [OPERAND]...
dd OPTION

DESCRIPTION
Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands.

Techno-Masochism

First, I think a few definitions are in order, and possibly an explanation of this blog in general.

Main Entry:
techno-
Function:
combining form
Etymology:
technology

Main Entry:

mas·och·ism

Pronunciation:

\ˈma-sə-ˌki-zəm, ˈma-zə- also ˈmā-\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

1: Pleasure in being abused or dominated : a taste for suffering

Therefore, we have a blog, about someone who has "a taste for suffering induced by technology", which brings us to the topic at hand... Dettuxx...

Probably the world's nastiest Linux-distribution.

This blog will chronicle my adventures in the installation and configuration of Dettuxx. For now, I will be writing from the comfort of my Apple iBook G4, but hopefully, if all goes according to plan (I'm sure it won't), I will be posting from Dettuxx very shortly.

To start everyone off with some reading material: http://www.dettus.net/dettuxx/