From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 16:40:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF29737B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from parmenides.utp.xnet by smtp.hccnet.nl via uds16-123.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.123.16] with ESMTP id BAA20623 (8.8.5/1.13); Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:40:09 +0100 (MET) Received: by parmenides.utp.xnet (Postfix, from userid 1005) id DA40F146; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:38:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by parmenides.utp.xnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9862E101; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:38:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:38:55 +0100 (CET) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: acs@parmenides.utp.xnet To: James Wilde Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install NT and return In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, James Wilde wrote: > My problem: I have an old server with an original SCSI disk on which I have > installed 4.1. In the server, as disk 2 I have another SCSI disk from > another machine with, of course, another SCSI adapter. The original machine > from which this disk came had a mobo crash a month or so ago. > > I need to get some data off this disk, and FreeBSD is playing games and says > the disk can not be read. Nonetheless, it has found some normally hidden > system files from NT on the disk. Before I give it up for lost I want to > try a reinstall of NT on the old disk. > > Now I suspect that this will write over my FreeBSD mbr on disk 1 with the NT > mbr. What I would like to know is what must I save from the FreeBSD disk - > and how - in order to be able to restore FreeBSD functionality when the > attempted rescue operation is over? And secondly, how do I do that? > > URLs would be appreciated in case the actual commands are too involved to > write, and as always, I'm very grateful to all who take the time to answer. If I were you I would get a spare IDE disk to install NT and leave the FreeBSD SCSI untouched. How much does a 10 Gb IDE disk cost these days? > > Incidentally, one of the main functions of this server when it is back up > running FreeBSD is going to be as a firewall. Not to protect my internal > network from the Internet but to protect the Internet from my internal > machines, which, especially since I upgraded one of them from NT Server to > W2K server, have frenetically rung up the Internet through my ISDN > connection, in a frantic attempt to announce themselves to whichever > nameserver will listen, and so far I haven't found a way to stop them. If > anyone recognizes this behaviour and has cured it, please let me know! I have no experience with a W2K server. The latest edition of "Building Internet Firewalls" has W2K server info, which I skipped reading. I do not know if blocking the netbios ports 137, 138 and 139 will stop the announcing behaviour. Another O'Reilly book "Using Samba" mentions setting up a Wins server in Microsoft network greatly diminishes the SMB broadcasts on a network. > > mvh/regards > > James > ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message