On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:14 , David Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> OK - small school - old NMR (really old). We set this up around 14 years ago
> with an O2 system as the user interface, with an indigo system as the
> interface between the O2 and the NMR. This is a JEOL system, has really been
> a workhorse with little issues over the last 14 years.
>
> We are obviously at the end here. We are working on getting a new one - but
> that's a work in progress.
>
> Anyway - today the hard drive failed on the indigo system. The simple issue
> is this - we access the indigo strictly via telnet.
>
> I do have a backup (I believe) on tape of the indigo.
>
> What is the best way to proceed here?
>
> There is no monitor on the indigo (nor is there a keyboard). I don't even
> have a monitor for it (no graphics card - and I don't have an old terminal).
I'd suggest first restoring the tape backup onto another machine on the
network. Then, you could access the console on the Indigo via a serial cable
[from Sabuj's post--many more recent machines appear to lack a serial port, but
you can get RS232 <=> USB adaptors for cheap that work well enough], and
configure the Indigo to netboot off the restored tape backup.
// Johan
Postdoctoral Fellow @ Physical Biosciences Division
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