Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:35:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:35:26 -0500 Received: from tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil ([204.222.179.33]:28984 "EHLO tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:35:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:35:32 -0600 (CST) From: Jesse Pollard Message-Id: <200110301635.KAA01915@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> To: clubneon@hereintown.net, bert hubert cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Nasty suprise with uptime X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.2b] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Meadors : >This was a crappy 486/66, with no reset button. So a power cycle was >called for. When I started the machine back up, it did the file system >has not been checked in a long time thing, and it started the fsck. ... >I usually follow those rules, but the cute little 486 in the corner with >the 240MB hard drive, 16MB of RAM, and the monster uptimes was just too >much fun to brag about. I'm not bragging anymore, and it is disassembled >on the floor in my office. Hey now, I have one of those (8MB instead of 16) and it's still working fine... HOWEVER, I did replace the disk controller and disk drive during one of the upgrade/update cycles with a leftover 2GB drive... Dumped the 128MB ftape, and 540 MB disk. I decided that the backups were easier to do over the net... Installs are easier that way too... The Slackware two disk install lets me restore across the net... (haven't had to do it though). And it functions just fine as a firewall handling a DSL connection, e-mail port, and http port. It has been happy for last 73 days (house lost power for a couple of hours.. UPS only good for 30min). Now that I have a spare CDROM, it's time to look into another upgrade to migrate from disk drives to CD boot (if I can cooerce the BIOS to boot a CD.. otherwise I'll just have to leave a boot floppy in). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil Any opinions expressed are solely my own. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/