So my home web/file server blew up last night. Literaly. Sparks flew, capacitors popped, the board fried. Needless to say, I wasn't happy. I wasn't so much bothered by the loss of the machine, since it was just an old Pentium 200. But the hard drive has a ton of data and tools on it that I have collected over the last few years. None of my other machines have any room to put the drive in, so I couldn't mount it and copy off what I needed.
When I went into work this morning, I rumaged around in the "spare-parts"/"things I haven't thrown out yet" area of my office. I scrapped together a mother board and CPU out of an old Dell, an old 3C509 NIC, and a power supply from a 486. When I got home from work, I threw together the parts, along with some that I had in the closet and build what can only be considered Frankenstein. I put the hard drive from my dead machine in, crossed my fingers, and fired it up. It came up like a charm. Apache, Samba, NFS, etc. all came up without a problem. I didn't have to reconfigure a single thing. I'd like to see someone do that with a Windows server ;-) -- --------------------------------------------------- Kenneth E. Lussier Geek by nature, Linux by choice PGP KeyID C0D2BA57 Public key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC0D2BA57 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
