[nycbug-talk] gosh am I dumb

[Joshua S. Freeman]

So...

I was busy starting to get to know our new FreeBSD box.  It's a beaut from
ion computing.  It has 4 big drives and a nice RAID card and all...

I was using sysinstall to do a system upgrade ... i chose the minimal
option...

it started up just fine.. I *think* it copied /etc to /?/?/tmp/etc or
something like that while it did its thing.

meanwhile, in another console i was fishing around looking at stuff... for
some retarded reason I ran 'dhclient'...

this stopped the big system upgrade process..

now my machine is in a completely unstable state.. I cannot even boot into
single user mode and get to a prompt.

I have the drivers for the RAID card and I have my 5.2 install CDs.

But I don't think i have the skill to pull off a clean re-install.

Ordinarily, I'd be posting a request for assistance on the jobs part of the
nycbug website but.. this is kind of an emergency..

If ANYONE has free time and would like to make a little $ by helping me
out.. please call me up, starting around 2:50pm at 718 817 8533...


TIA

J.

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Joshua S. Freeman
Dir. of Information Technology
New York Botanical Garden
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