[tech] Beige

Nick Bannon nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Tue Aug 1 15:11:55 WST 2000


On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:59:46PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Beige needs a reinstall. It appears the filesystem is corrupt, it claims 
> to be using 110% disk space. And I'm seeing strange errors on the console.

Perhaps it is - check to see the logs haven't overflown, for example.

> Almost definitely a filesystem or disk problem.
> 
> Do we have install media?

Back it up to the network first - it's gone a long time without a
reinstall and I'd hate to lose anything vital.

Yes, NEXTSTEP 3.3 media are in the labelled, large, yellow envelope
in the machine room, with Y2K patches, which were never applied to
Beige (but it seemed OK anyway...).

Nick.

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