[Cialug] Infoblox Jan. 20, 2008 Event

[Mr. Arthur]

This may be a way to spend Wednesday
away from the office on a topic that
has some relevance to where you work.

http://forms.infoblox.com/go/infoblox/WinConnect30Jan08


Like many other organizations out there, you've probably resorted to using 
spreadsheets to track your IP space—which means you're also already 
familiar with the many limitations of spreadsheets for managing dynamic IP 
networks.

In this informative and interactive session, we will:

     * Discuss practical approaches to simplify IP Address management(IPAM) 
in your environment with Infoblox IPAM WinConnect system
     * Discuss how the Infoblox appliance-based solution provides nonstop 
DNS and DHCP for utility-grade service
     * In-depth, customer case study: FBL


On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Josh More wrote:

> First of all, back up /home to an external USB or something like it.  If
> there are disk/fs errors, the next step might make them worse.
>
> After that, use the smartctl commands to run a long test and view the
> results.  If the drive passes smart, you can probably re-use it.  If
> not, drill it and toss it.  It might be easier if you walk him through
> booting into rescue mode and opening up SSH so you can run the tests
> yourself.
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> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
> 515-245-7701
>
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>>>> "Kendall Bailey" <krbailey at gmail.com> 01/29/08 7:45 AM >>>
> I set my brother up with Ubuntu 6.06 a while back.  Suddenly the boot
> up sequence started to fail to mount the root partition.  He ran
> spinrite at multiple levels and while it initially flagged a few block
> unrecoverable, it now says everything is clean.  The boot sequence now
> gets past mounting but says it "failed to connect to the tty" or
> something like that.  He's in St. Louis so I can't see the screen.  It
> drops him into a root shell before mounting the /home partition.
> There's not much I can suggest for him to do.  Even things like dmesg
> don't run at this point.  I've mailed him an Ubuntu 7.10 disk since he
> lost the last one I gave him.  Any suggestions short of an OS
> reinstall?  Should he keep using this hdd, or does a failure of this
> type typically spell doom for the drive as a whole?  I'm hoping he'll
> get his /home partition safely backed up once we can boot off a CD...
>
> Thanks.
> Kendall
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