Look in the mirror and watch yourself growing up

Being bored last night, I decided it'd be a good idea to go back through the 19 months of my life I have stored on DeadJournal. Starting from the beginning, I read through every one of 587 entries. It was actually quite amusing to watch myself through half of senior year of high school, then through my freshman year at Mudd, trying to figure out what the hell was going on, and just as I'd figure some out, something else would come up, ad infinitum. I remembered, even felt how I was then, but even still, it's not the same. I'm not the same.

I thought I had a point....

In other news, I'm finally actually downloading the Debian files to my dad's (now my) old laptop and hoping to get them installing tonight, or tomorrow. I feel like I'm flying blind, but I'll plow ahead.... I have a dreadful feeling that I'll get halfway in and realize that I'm missing something critical, like the driver to access the network and get everything else. But now it's time to kick it into DOS and make the disk images.

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Right.

I got as far as having to put in the root disk before it coughed. It threw a bunch of disk-read errors, so I pulled the disk and put it back in again to try again, and got a kernel panic.

Sigh.

Reformat disk. Rewrite disk image. Replace rescue disk. Reboot....

Got it.

100 MB should be plenty of swap. What the hell, everything else can be root.

Bad block scan. Yes. I want this thing as clean as possible.

And then, the dust settles, and Soultooth is happily accessing Debian.org. I think I win.

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But now it has gone thbbbbt.

The network blinked a sec in the middle of install, and I can't figure out how to tell dbootstrap to try to start the file again.

[http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.47_all.deb]

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