[13:57] andrew: get yer nom noms here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWi7CLoZ2Q [13:57] Title: YouTube - Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom - Parry Gripp (at www.youtube.com) [15:36] Good bacon to all! [15:49] good chocolate to all! [15:53] aye! [15:53] Good Runescape to all! [15:54] Good Farscape to all! [16:08] hello any grubbers listening ? [16:09] hello mr bacon, SamuraiAlba [16:09] no [16:10] only a stuffed bear is paying attention ? [16:14] heya [16:15] my grub has been messed by ubuntu update [16:16] I think it fried my Bacon [16:17] I am InHisName on another machine, SamuraiAlba [16:40] ahhh [16:40] Sorry, was filling out my FAFSA [16:43] SamuraiAlba: upon booting liveCD saw error of hard drive controller. REseated SATA cable. Now works again. [16:43] School funding for College or ?? SamuraiAlba [16:47] College [16:51] What major are you choosing ? [16:51] Now for the Hesaa... [16:51] Computer Science with a focus on Network Security @ Camden [17:02] Cool, I am in Cisco training right now and a microsoft series. Finish up late march. [17:02] Sweet. [17:02] Enjoying it? [17:03] Sorta, lotta info, heavy exams for certifications. [17:03] I have most of the Cisco study guides and videos here :) [17:04] The big trick is will a future employer want me rather than someone else with bazillion years experience and no certs. [17:04] That is a big trick :O [17:05] I have accumulated 7 Gigs of study helps dumps pdfs and nuggets etc. [17:05] Now I have to find out how to convert my dynamic HD to a simple volume so I can install Ubuntu :) [17:05] Delete partitions [17:05] It's my laptops ONLY partition [17:05] Start with bare drive. [17:06] Not an option with a broken DVD burner and no backup external... [17:06] Do you still want dual boot? [17:06] wubi [17:06] I have Wubi. I was also going to install CentOS, tho [17:07] If you have one hard drive and one partition I don't think there is any value in making it dynamic in the first place. [17:07] wubi is only one to install into file in windows drive. NO reformatting [17:07] sort of a 'nested' dual boot [17:08] What about that black edition, is there a dvd player there ? [17:08] Opps its a laptop [17:09] the black edition desktop is still here :) [17:09] I put a PSU in it, but now it needs an HD [17:09] You bought the HD :) [17:09] You sold me two now have none? [17:09] none [17:10] Sell it back to him at a profit [17:10] do you have a USB to SATA box or adapter ? [17:11] Nay [17:11] I'm just gonna have to stick with Wubi :'( [17:11] I could try ChinnoDog but he was out of stock on cash then and gave it to his girl friend to pay bills. So I assume still empty. [17:12] wubi plays pretty nice without spending any $$ [17:13] oh. hmm. I see. [17:13] ChinnoDog: do you know much about grub2 ? [17:13] Rent to own? [17:13] not really [17:13] bummer [17:15] I know that if you installed Windows on a simple disk and then converted it to dynamic that you should be able to change it back though [17:15] Making it dynamic doesn't remove the structures that were there before you did it. You made it a dynamic disk without any dynamic volumes, which does nothing for you. [17:18] now to find out how to convert it back... [17:19] might be able to right click on it in disk management and convert back with a couple clicks [17:20] no joy there [17:21] maybe gparted? [17:22] HIRENS! WOOWOO! [17:23] no. Linux tools do not know anything about dynamic disks last I checked. [17:23] Have you created any dynamic volumes? [17:25] no [17:26] brb trying Hirens [17:33] ChinnoDog: In my usoft class, when converting to dynamic, there is NO going back. Sorta like lvm in ubuntu, its delete partition to go back to basic disks. [17:34] There might be a hacker way to do it but would not be pretty. [17:35] It is completely different from LVM [17:35] At least, for the first paritition [17:35] There is a caveat with dynamic disks. You can't install Windows onto them. [17:35] Can't install boot volume to it. [17:35] right [17:35] But can convert others. [17:35] So when you install Windows you will be installing onto a standard partition [17:36] its Gates 's goofy answer to lvm [17:36] It isn't possible to remove the partition information for that first partition [17:36] The only thing converting a disk to dynamic does is mark it as dynamic, until you create dynamic volumes on it which still don't affect the first partition [17:37] I'm pretty sure I've converted disks in the other direction before [17:37] It has physical and logical buried deep in it. [17:37] But, only if you don't have dynamic volumes created on it [17:38] maybe [17:38] When they were first introduced it created a problem with disk imaging software because none of the existing solutions could read it [17:38] Probably his one volume was converted to dynamic. He can see it in disk management. [17:38] So I would have to convert it back in order to image it [17:40] If he never converted the one disk to dynamic then he might have a chance to undo the little bit flag. [18:45] @stats [18:45] InHisName: I have 2 registered users with 1 registered hostmasks; 1 owner and 0 admins. [18:45] @logs [18:45] we haz logs, http://ubuntupennsylvania.org/PennBot/ or What happens in #ubuntu-us-pa stays in the logs