Unit 4

I am trying to build a better understanding of what I am doing, but I still don’t have a solid foundation that I can relate these command line interactions to. Friday things were going very well with Assignment 1 when I decided it was time to take a snapshot. In one stupid instance I hit Ctrl. Alt, Delete rather than Ctrl and Alt, and was sent to Windows task manager. When I navigated back to Ubuntu, I got a message which I thought was telling me I had made a fatal error. Visions of hours of reinstalling and configuring all the work I had previously done swam before my eyes. Luckily Bruce was monitoring the discussion list, and told me how to get back to where I started. I had taken an earlier snapshot, but had not yet used the process of restoring Ubuntu using one. That part was easier than I thought.

I try to be so precise when entering commands, and often get results I expect, but other times not. One frustrating part for me is not knowing how to recover from an error if going back through all the steps don’t help. One tip I learned the hard way is to focus on one task at a time and do not allow interruptions. Yesterday during the Webmin addition, I went through an entire series of steps without hitting the final “Create” button. Repetition, repetition and repetition is going to be the only way for me to learn these skills.