This may be the last rambling written from Rygel.

New hardware arrived Thursday night. scottgalvin.com and I hung out for a while at Peter's assembling some of it. bouncing arrived in the evening, and we all ate together at the Canyon Cafe.

Weekend, bouncing hung out with the family, we did random stuff, I made bean dip, etc.

Argo is now alive and on the network, but not being used for anything "real" quite yet. I placed an order for a Gentoo cd on Friday, so I figure it will arrive sometime this week. I plan to install it for use as Argo's primary OS.

Meanwhile, I've decided I'm not going to nuke Argo's old Debian install just yet, as I had initially planned.

A bit of research has revealed that convincing the BIOS to boot directly to the new SATA hard drive would be somewhere between non-trivial and impossible with this motherboard. So I've decided to take the path of least resistance for now, and use the good old 40 gig IDE as a boot/OS drive, and make the entire SATA 149 gig drive (advertised as 160, but we all know advertising lies) my home partition.

I'll keep the existing Debian install (at least for a while), nuke the current home partition and put Gentoo there, and run a dual boot setup.

So, the step I'm about to perform is this: Copy my home directory on Rygel over to Argo's new drive. At that point, Rygel will be happily decommissioned. (But might someday be summoned again to serve as a router/firewall.) Though painfully underpowered compared to what I had been used to, Rygel has served me well as a substitute desktop during Argo's long coma.

I'd like to get to meditation class tonight too, so I think I'll get this process underway. Sleep, dominar. Sleep.