Is Cube the server that ERPS's page is on? "Sean R. Lynch KG6CVV" wrote:
> Oh yeah, forgot to mention, sometime after 7:08 PDT this morning, Cube's > boot drive decided to die. I can hardly blame it, because Cube didn't > really have enough fans, and it was stacked right on top of the /home > drive. > > Dave and Michael and I met at CDI to diagnose the problem, discovered > the dead drive, turned off the machine, and pulled it off the shelf and > opened it up to let it cool. Dave and I went to Action computer and > picked up a case fan and a couple of drive bay fan sets. > > We managed to get Cube to boot off the drive once more after mounting it > with one of the drive coolers, but it was not a happy drive; the head > kept sticking, causing retries and errors. We copied all the data onto > the /home drive, which is 60 GiB, took out the old boot drive and put > the /home drive into its place, screwed around a little to get LILO > working, and then shrank the partition to make room for a swap > partition. > > While I was at it, I installed a 2.4.18 kernel, switched to DevFS, and > switched the root partition over to Ext3 so it won't take so darned long > to fsck next time it crashes :) Also upgraded Apache, MySQL, OpenSSH, > and a bunch of other packages. This took a total of about 15 minutes. > Debian GNU/Linux rocks. > > Cube is now humming happily along with the old Cube's case fan blowing > into the case (the new case fan was the wrong size, so we improvised) > and a drive bay cooler with the 60 GiB drive in one of the 5.25" bays. > It probably won't have heat problems again any time soon, though I'm not > completely happy with the flow rate on the case fan, so I might hunt > down a better one when I return the fan we bought. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: signature.asc > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>----<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ........ Alex Fraser N3DER ......... ......... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ....... [~]_>^</\-[~]_>^</\-[~]_>^</\-[~]_>^< _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
