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
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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