Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today is part 2 of server month. Let’s get started!
Per my original draft of last week’s blog (before I suffered a power outage), I’m dedicating this February to testing the idea of study posts. Goal-oriented posts make for a satisfying story, but I often exhaust myself trying to reach big milestones and stress out when I manufacture victories. This month, while I would like to safely overhaul my server setup, I’m going to do my best to have no goalposts aside from writing between three hundred and a thousand words. We’ll see how long that lasts.
When I first ButtonMash (my current home server) used, I also bought one of its twins for my father. His new system is stable now, and so he has relinquished control of the old system. At the point of handover, it was dual booted with Linux Mint and Debian – with Debian being the less used. With this in mind, I’m planning on overwriting the Debian drive and keeping Mint around just in case.
As a part of the ritual before wiping a drive, I examined it for data we might want to keep. I spotted some images from a high quality set of Bible pictures my church has the rights to use, but our local copy is stuck on an external hard disk that fell and doesn’t work anymore. In total, I figure I’ve salvaged around 50 to 56 distinct photos of a much larger set. I locked onto the pattern of five digits and a .jpg extension, which came in handy when searching for additional survivors. Most of them were in a directory titled trash. I moved everything I could find (duplicates included) to an external USB stick from both Linux installations and on over to GoldenOakLibry for safekeeping.
However, when I went to install Rocky 9, my Ventoy USB froze while bringing up its menu – both when attempting legacy and UEFI boot.