fixit disc for 7.3 #1?

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:51:37PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:51:37 +1000
> From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au>
> Subject: Re: fixit disc for 7.3 #1?
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> 
> On 02/15/12 12:01, Gary Kline wrote:
> >On 02/14/2012 05:40 PM, Da Rock wrote:
> >>On 02/15/12 10:08, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>>guys,
> >>>

	[[old stuff that nobody will reread!]]

> >
> >i have a working copy on 7.3 #4 on my Server.  the server in a
> >2009 dell;  the one that is busted and that i want to upgrade
> >---to either debian-6-iso or freebsd9-iso is my old 2003 dell.
> >two different computers.  the thing with the old dell is that
> >nothing can boot off it.  it keep cycling, trying to boot a 7.3
> >#1.
> >
> >i just remembered that the floppy disk   was a DOS file  with a
> >secret command :A:\MBR that got rid of that boot track.
> >
> >it's looking more and more hopeless.
> >
> >....
> >
> >wasn't/isn't there some kind of "fixit" CD?
> You can't take the disks out to copy data off them? Or use 7.0 live
> to copy across to the working dell?


what is on my '09 dell is current.  i copy my web, mail, and DNS
files at least nightly to here [ my ubuntu desktop].  i also have
several copies of the tarball here and on one other computer.  so
there is nothing on the 2003 dell that i need.

a friend helped me bring in it from the garage on sunday and cable
it up.  i was doing to e either go  with debian or fbsd-9 as a new
Server in a few months.

i am tir ed of trying to keep FBSD current.  it is just a server:
DNS, mail, and  web.  years ago the thinking was that if a release
worked,  then great: there was no need to keep upgrading just for
the    sake of upgrading.

my ubuntu desktop is configured to keep itself updated.  this frees
me from wondering if an updated gtk will be missing a dependency; so
i can concentrate on my hacking.  this is the main reason i'm
considering quitting freebsd for my server and going with something
_almost_ as good.


> 
> If you cant do that, then use the live disk to run fdisk and restore
> the mbr. "man fdisk"


	ye gods! cab you give me a url to this 'live' file?  my
	d/load on freebsd-9-iso is about 3 minutes from finishing
	up.  i would like to see how much work this live cd is going
	to entain.  and how much different it will be to get my
	server files onto a linux-based platform.  ---i've been
	using freebsd since release 2.0.5.  long time


> 
> If you have already tried installing 9 though, you may have some
> "unexpected behaviour" - kinda like what you're seeing now I'll bet.


	not yet. the ISO file is safely tucked away.  it would fail.
	i've got to use the live distribution first.


-- 
 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
           Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
          The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
             Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community.