From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 01:13:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4689D16A4DA for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:13:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A6C543D46 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:12:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k851Cvhf023312 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k851Cvnt023311 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:12:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20060905011256.GA23070@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix for 20 years. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Subject: stuff:: FreeBSD folks, my giveaway hardware, and more. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:13:00 -0000 Atom Powers lives close enough that a stop-over yesterday was reasonable. I had "tao" booted to Fixit mode and with some magic ifconfig command Atom managed to rescue the hundreds of megs of stuff that I should have backed up by rsync or otherwise. This noon Atom brought over a set of the 6.1 CD's that I will try once I've reinstalled 5.3 and hammered the hard drive for a couple days. Greg L mentioned the possibility of hardware faults as a cause of the fatal trap. If the disk *has* gone south, I'll add the entire box to my giveaways. Anyway this is a public thanks to everybody who has helped, including the rsync scripts. It is takes a week to get things stable, better now than later. Everybody knows how rock stolid FBSD is: one crash in 11 years is pretty good proof:-) So thanks to everybody from back in the Eozoic 4.0 days at Cal to the guys working om 7.0-CURRENT. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix