Not what I was planning

[mdlbear]

I really wasn't planning to spend from 9pm to 1am last night installing my new gateway system. Really! But somewhere in the course of trying to put a gigabit ethernet card into the fileserver, the gateway fell down and couldn't get up. I didn't notice until the flower_cat came in and complained that filk radio was broken. I went to reboot the gateway and discovered that the disk was hosed; it couldn't read anything but the boot loader, and my desktop machine and an assortment of USB adapters wouldn't even recognize that it was a disk.

Except, fortunately, for the new gateway system that I was just about to start configuring! This may be due to the fact that I had the old disk jury-rigged and dangling almost vertically from its cables. Mechanical trouble? Sticky bearings? I'll probably never know. I did a clean Sarge install, copied the old disk into the big partition where there was lots of space, and set about restoring the status quo ante. It's still not quite there yet; at least one of the websites are broken, I need to reinstall/reconfigure gallery, and the mainboard's ethernet interface is giving me an "invalid MAC address" error (the three gigabit interfaces on the daughterboard are fine, and all I need right now). But at least the network is working well enough that folks at theStarport can get things done. I'll deal with the rest this evening, maybe.

Comments

[kissmyassterisk.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!
<3, Tess

[mdlbear]

Thanks!