[Tfug] Lenny 5.0 Works Great

[Charles R. Kiss]

I just changed over to Lenny 5.0 (AMD64).

Here's the Story:

I was half-in/half-out of a VirtualBox session in Etch 4.0; my /home was  
running low on harddrive space-I was experimenting with modifyhd, and  
other commands, to fix it, doing some noobie things inside and outside the  
virtual space.  I took a break for a few minutes; and returned to see my  
girlfriend at the helm; I allowed her continue her "quick" email session  
with gmail.  No problem.  The virtual session was in a terminal, maybe in  
a chroot (I forgot how I had set it up), anyway, I figured I was safe,   
and also willing to experiment.  I really love her.

Well, it wasn't five minutes before my processor and monitor just  
instantaneously popped-off; not a clean unmount :)).  I guess it was  
fitting she lose her "quick" email.

No real damage, as far as I can tell; but I couldn't reboot fully becuase  
the /tmp directory was in disarray, and not mounting  =/dev/sda9. Well,  
after trying to run fsck for awhile I decided to let it go.  Or maybe I  
got it working and things were unstable.  I don't remember.

Looking for a solution, and seeing that Lenny 5 came out on Valentine's  
Day, I took it as a sign from Cupid, that I should just reformat the whole  
drive, and simultaneously upgrade, and expand my /home space for more  
VirtualBox memory.  And continue with my experiments. So, that's what I  
did.

Lenny 5 is great; I love it.  I had one problem with alsa: had to cp the  
alsa kill script in rc0.d to rc2.d and rename it.

The only remaining issue is the VirtualBox: I want to try it again.  It  
really worked great (auto-detection, etc.) until I ran out of space  
loading old hardware programs, scanner, etc.  But I have a question: is it  
better to install a virtual ware product in a 32-chroot and use a 32bit  
package, to install it on the 64bit side and use the 64bit package, make a  
64bit chroot and install it there, or does it make no difference?

Charles
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