Nyx back soon
dcy...@my-deja.com
He also copied nyx's boot drive to a new harddrive and the two
machines were running happily in his conference room. We hope to
get them back up to Boulder and on line later today (Monday).
He is working on iris and arachne now.
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Dave Biggar
dcy...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Trygve did successfully make a duplicate of nyx10's dying boot drive.
> He also copied nyx's boot drive to a new harddrive and the two
> machines were running happily in his conference room. We hope to
> get them back up to Boulder and on line later today (Monday).
>
> He is working on iris and arachne now.
>
Thanks for the update.
Thanks for your efforts.
Good luck to Trygve with iris and arachne.
Dave
dcy...@chisp.net
dave....@sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> dcy...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the update.
> Thanks for your efforts.
> Good luck to Trygve with iris and arachne.
All of Nyx's current problems are due to old harddrives
failing. The boot drives in nyx, nox and arachne are long
past the "best if used by" date. Trygve is replacing them.
He is also going to replace the external drive which had the
user home directories which was also starting to fail. (Terry
Knab and I saw i/o errors start appearing last week.)
Unfortunately, formatting disks under SunOS takes hours. And
making a mirror image of a drive with dd or dump also takes
hours. With several drives to work on it takes a long time
even with several machines (Sparcs, Classics, Axels) to work
with. * The read errors on the dying drives also slow up the
process. But if we don't do it now data important to both
the system and to users will be lost.
Trygve and I have learned a lot about SunOS and about a bunch
of stuff that is done on Nyx the "wrong" way, including that
both Arachne and Nyx10 have mounted "c" partitions. That is
a SunOS "no no". Trygve has also learned several ways of making
Nyx more efficient and robust. (He is also very glad that he
spent this spring accumulating Sun hardware. Thanks also to the
person who arranged for the donation of the classics.)
I am still hopeful that we can restore Nyx by tonight not only as
it was but better.
* You should see Trygve's conference room and livingroom with nyx, nox,
arachne, iris and all their externals plus several sparc, classic, axel
and pc machines and assorted bits and reference materials scattered
around. Maybe I will take a picture of Nyx in surgery.
Darlene
dcy...@chisp.net
Thor Thomas
dcy...@chisp.net wrote:
> I am still hopeful that we can restore Nyx by tonight not only as
> it was but better.
Awaiting eagerly, and hoping I'll get a chance to log in before
I leave for camping tomorrow.
-be seeing you
AVON
(Whaddaya mean there's no InterNet connection in the middle
of the woods??)
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dcy...@my-deja.com
Thor Thomas (aka Kerr Avon) <av...@pobox.com> wrote:
> In article <7opojo$lre$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> dcy...@chisp.net wrote:
>
> > I am still hopeful that we can restore Nyx by tonight not only as
> > it was but better.
>
> Awaiting eagerly, and hoping I'll get a chance to log in
before
> I leave for camping tomorrow.
Well, it looks like it won't making it tonight. Some of
the partitions are being stubborn. Trygve was exhausted
enough that you'd wonder that he could stand up. He headed
off for a nap with assurances that we were close.
I had already planned to go to Boulder on Wednesday and
spend most of the day anyway. Make some sacrafices to
the SCSI god so that he smiles upon us and has the drives
ready by tomorrow morning so I can take them with me.
Timothy Roddis
dcy...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Well, it looks like it won't making it tonight. Some of
> the partitions are being stubborn.
It's not been Nyx's year has it?
Personally I think the gods are angry with us: not enough machines
named after them this year, or perhaps they expect a hardware
sacrifice.
Good luck and thanks once again to the hapless maintenance warriors.
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Tim