Subj : imaging
To : Bob Seaborn
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Mar 16 2013 02:51 pm
>BS> I have an os2 box (that runs my Fido system) with HPFS
>BS> formatted drives and the drives are failing.
> what'd you ever do concerning this, bob? did you get what you
> needed? which method did you use? ;)
BS> About a week ago, the OS/2 boot disc self destructed,
BS> refusing to boot (couldn't find PMSHELL.EXE).
ouch! but we knew it was coming, right?
BS> Luckily I did have a valid current backup of all my Fido stuff,
BS> including undelivered outbound traffic.
that's a good thing...
BS> So with the help of my son (and Charles Cruden - author of
BS> Internet Rex), I reinstalled the complete Fido system on an OS/2
BS> setup on one of my son's VMWare servers, and (so far) looks like
BS> everything is flowing smoothly.
double ouch! at least you didn't loose it all and decide not to come back...
when i had a similar problem a little while back, i was very glad that i had
decided years ago to have one partition for the OS and other partitions for all
my other stuff... that way if the OS went south, as it did, i only needed to
grab the other partitions and fit them into a new installation... in my case, i
went from Warp 3 Connect to eCS2 but everything else stayed the same... i'm
even using my 4OS2 and 4DOS as i've always done and not that which comes with
eCS (4OS2 only)... i'm still running my old reliable Apache 1337 server ;)
BS> As of this weekend I did change my nodelisting to remove the
BS> POTS line, as the last call was received on it on March 04, 2012 -
BS> from an ip-capable Fido node. I don't operate any form of bbs, so
BS> see no need to maintain a POTS line that's rarely, if ever, used.
i can understand that... there's not many POTS only systems coming into fidonet
these days and for those that are, there are plenty of POTS capably systems
that can handle their needs ;)
