Re: Version 4.4 sick and dying

2005-06-08 Thread John Von Essen
If I understand your email correctly, you were able to get all the files tar'd up from the original system. And you put those tar's on a second hard drive that you mounted in the dying system, then a day later, the primary boot drive died. So right now you have a non-bootable drive formated wit

Re: Version 4.4 sick and dying

2005-06-08 Thread Julian Elischer
where (physically) are you? It is possible there is someone nearby that can help you.. Sydney Hole & Owen Huffaker wrote: Hello, Wonder if you can give me a little advise. [...] Regards, Owen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Version 4.4 sick and dying

2005-06-08 Thread Eric Anderson
Sydney Hole & Owen Huffaker wrote: Hello, Wonder if you can give me a little advise. [..snip..] I am going to try this tomorrow morning and wondered if you might have some good advise. I do have a copy of BSD 4.5 and 5.o from a FreeBSD Unleashed book by Michael Urban and Brian Tieman. I also

Re: Version 4.4 sick and dying

2005-06-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Sydney Hole & Owen Huffaker wrote: Wonder if you can give me a little advise. But not much more. I do have a copy of BSD 4.5 and 5.o from a FreeBSD Unleashed book by Michael Urban and Brian Tieman. I also have the absolute BSD by Michael Lucas. I would not touch them as they are real

Version 4.4 sick and dying

2005-06-08 Thread Sydney Hole & Owen Huffaker
Hello, Wonder if you can give me a little advise. I don't have a background in freebsd. I maintained a Unix V5 system years ago and I have been called in to look at an installation that is ailing. This system is a 4.4 version that is acting as a web server. It has some web functionality on it w