[H-GEN] Ding-dong, The Drive is Dead

[Jason Henry Parker]

My RZ25 rolled over and died yesterday afternoon, curse it to heck.
Before I consign it to the Big Mainframe in The Sky, however, I'd like
to consult the Ora^H^H^H^Whumbug on my options.

NetBSD is complaining about "bad block 36042", and "rrz0 : media error"
or thereabouts.  I can't fsck the drive properly, because /etc/ has
vanished, and fsck wants to read /etc/fstab (curse it all).

As I see it, I've got a few options now:

1) Scum^WPurchase a new drive, probably second-hand; do any humbuggers
   have one they would like to part with?  It only needs to be about 250M,
   though larger drives *would* be better, of course.

2) Boot NetBSD over the network with tftp or something, and mount the
   filesystem via NFS.  Erk.  That's not going to work, unless X can
   make a socket on an NFS filesystem.  (Come to think of it, I don't
   know if that's even *close* to correct.)

Suggestions, flames, offers of assistance and chit-chat all encouraged.

-- 
---Jason Henry Parker--henry at freezer.humbug.org.au--- ____
|``It is hardly my fault if his wit is so dulled by | \ _/__ 
|long lunches that he cannot recognise irony when it|  \X  /
|pokes him in the belly.''  -- Stuart Littlemore, QC|    \/
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