Subj : imaging
To   : mark lewis
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Fri Mar 15 2013 09:29 am

>
>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? ;)


     About a week ago, the OS/2 boot disc self destructed, refusing to boot
(couldn't find PMSHELL.EXE).    Luckily I did have a valid current backup of
all my Fido stuff, including undelivered outbound traffic.

     So with the help of my son (and Charles Cruden - author of Internet Rex),
I reinstalled the complete Fido system on an OS/2 setup on one of my son's
VMWare servers, and (so far) looks like everything is flowing smoothly.

     As of this weekend I did change my nodelisting to remove the POTS line,
as the last call was received on it on March 04, 2012 - from an ip-capable Fido
node.  I don't operate any form of bbs, so see no need to maintain a POTS line
that's rarely, if ever, used.






                      .....Bob

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