My new laptop booted into the latest Ubuntu live media, with Gparted repartitioning my first hard drive, and a terminal window visible on the screen.
I live barefooted and naked, very close to Earth and Nature, in a 16-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i. I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙
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Now that I have a suitable laptop again, and a better one at that, a large focus of mine is getting my hard drives bootable again in this new system. My three hard drives, each with a separate installation of Arch Linux on them, need to be modified to allow them to boot with the new computer. They came from a system that used legacy BIOS boot and they have a MBR partition table, which means to make them work with this laptop I need to convert all of them from MBR to GPT without losing data, repartition all three hard drives to create an ESP partition, set that partition to auto-mount on boot, and then install the GRUB2 bootloader to the ESP partition. If I do that to all three hard drives, that should make them bootable. This process is going to take me days, and then once I can boot into the hard drives again, I have gagglefucks of updates to install. I'll also likely hate to get a few things working again.
The only thing for which I used the Windows install on the hard drive that came with the computer was to download the latest Ubuntu install/live media, and a program to make a bootable USB drive with it. Once I had that, Windows was no longer useful to me.
From morning until now I've been bouncing back and forth between doing my Hive tasks and going through the steps to get my hard drives bootable. It was definitely not a typical morning. I did my best to utilize my time as efficiently as I possibly could. As soon as I published my Index4Index Daily Inspired Motivation: We Must Make Time for What Is Important! post, I left the Flow House (and my computer running very long and sensitive disk operations) just after 2PM to go work on the land for a while.
I worked with Ano for a few hours clearing and leveling a new trail between his building and the chicken pen. We worked intensely, and got a huge amount done. We even cindered the new trail, so aside from a tiny bit more cinder here and there, it's now good to go. That felt very satisfying.
After finishing that, I took a shower (I was a very dirty boy!😉), then went to check on the partitioning operation I had left my computer doing. I made the ESP partition too small, so I had grow it a bit, which meant another multi-hour disk operation. I'm still learning the UEFI/EFI/GPT/ESP way of doing things. Once I started the second disk operation, I went to make myself some food in the Landing, then returned to the Flow House to dive back into my Hive tasks, and keep an eye on my computer as it ran its disk operation.
It's definitely going to take me some time to find a good balance between Hive, Arch Linux, and what I do here at GaiaYoga. Just juggling Hive and getting my hard drives bootable is challenging, because I have to do a fair bit of research to do much of what I'm doing on my computer right now, which takes quite a lot of time. Once I can boot into my Arch installs on each hard drive, and get them fully updated and ready to go, I won't need to put quite so much time into it.
I'm going to end this post for now, as I still have to catch up on Hive again, and reinstall GRUB2 to function with the new ESP partition, all before I head to bed! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power Android Phone.
Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚
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