Conversations about your/my setup

HAL
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Conversations about our

Conversations about our setups ... Hmmm, well lately the last thing I did here was to put an SSD drive in my main crunching PC for this project. It won't speed it up but I have a couple of SSDs being bumped in favor of M.2 drives I recently purchased for other PCs. So, I needed to clone the Linux install with my project progress onto the SSD. I had been cloning Linux using Clonezilla. However, it won't easily go from a large drive to a smaller one even if the amount of data on the larger drive will easily fit on the smaller one (1 TB to 500 GB).

However, I was able to do it using GParted Live booted from a USB stick. I easily just copied the partitions almost as easily as copying files, to the SSD from the platter drive. The results were perfect - as if I never touched the computer, which is very good.

I told all my friends I could teach them how to be funny, but they all just started laughing at me.

Mike Hewson
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Try EPYC-Fireball after my

Try EPYC-Fireball after my favorite futuristic Gerry Anderson TV series from the early 1960's : Fireball XL5 

{ this was before Thunderbirds }

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

Tom M
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Mike Hewson wrote: Try

Mike Hewson wrote:

Try EPYC-Fireball after my favorite futuristic Gerry Anderson TV series from the early 1960's : Fireball XL5 

{ this was before Thunderbirds }

Cheers, Mike.

Mike,

I think I remember that show.  Was it made with pupets?  And had a really fast "car"?

Thank you for the idea.

Tom M

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GWGeorge007
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Yep!

Yep!

George

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Gary Roberts
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Tom M wrote:Any more

Tom M wrote:
Any more ideas?

You should call it EPYC-Disaster.

Just invoke the fundamental law of nature.  (I can never remember whether it's Murphy's Law or Sod's Law.)

You know, the one that says -

Whatever resounding declaration you make ... the exact opposite is bound to happen. :-)

 

Cheers,
Gary.

Keith Myers
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+100 as usual for Tom's

+100

as usual for Tom's luck

board has already died

 

Tom M
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Keith Myers wrote:+100as

Keith Myers wrote:

+100

as usual for Tom's luck

board has already died

But third time replacement is a charm? Right?  And I have the perfect flute to charm my snake (Motherboard) with.  Used Epyc 7402p CPU inbound.

Tom M

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Tom M
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Gary Roberts wrote: Tom M

Gary Roberts wrote:

Tom M wrote:
Any more ideas?

You should call it EPYC-Disaster.

Just invoke the fundamental law of nature.  (I can never remember whether it's Murphy's Law or Sod's Law.)

You know, the one that says -

Whatever resounding declaration you make ... the exact opposite is bound to happen. :-)

Yeah, got it in one (or two, or three ;)

I have decided to rename my baseline GPU server from "Moonshot" to "x570-Gpu-Server".

This is "aspirational" in that it is currently running on a b450-f MB not a x570 MB :)  But it is "up" with all three Rtx 3080 ti's installed and a Rtx 3080 waiting for the EPYC MB.

I am still pondering over what I might want to rename my EPYC system the next time I get another MB back from New Egg. (Shipped it via New Egg return, UPS, this morning).

I like the "Fireball" name.  I am tired of "Moonshot" which predicts it will probably fail.  Like it has.

Tom M

 

A Proud member of the O.F.A.  (Old Farts Association).  Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)  I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!

Mike Hewson
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Tom M wrote:Was it made with

Tom M wrote:
Was it made with pupets?

Yep.

Quote:
And had a really fast "car"?

That was Supercar which was produced around the same time.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

Tom M
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Mike Hewson wrote: Tom M

Mike Hewson wrote:

Tom M wrote:
Was it made with pupets?

Yep.

Quote:
And had a really fast "car"?

That was Supercar which was produced around the same time.

Cheers, Mike.

One of the images I still remember from "Supercar" was when they had to use their most extreme fuel.  A significant portion of the time the puppet making the stuff ended up with a char coaled face.

Tom M

A Proud member of the O.F.A.  (Old Farts Association).  Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)  I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!

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