fixit disc for 7.3 #1?
Da Rock
freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Wed Feb 15 04:48:17 UTC 2012
On 02/15/12 14:03, Gary Kline wrote:
> 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
It will be in the release archives - probably a live version of the
legacy release atm, so check there first. Otherwise just hunt through
the ftp directories, it shouldn't be hard to find. I had a 7.0 livefs
version at one point.
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
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