It's been almost six months, but we're finally back up!
That title could (should?) also be viewed as advice...
I ended up purchasing a replacement motherboard on eBay. It seemed a bit silly to purchase a six year old motherboard with a 400Mhz AMD K6-2 processor, but I didn't want to take a chance that there would be a problem with the OS loading.
I didn't count on one of the drives dying in the interim.
The good news was that I had a backup. The bad news was that it was two years old.
Fortunately, the server had two drives - one for the system directories, and one for the two primary user directories. The drive that died was the system drive.
So, I was able to get the system back up with the Mondo Rescue bootable backup CDs, then install the old "data" drive.
It took some tinkering to get things working - subtle things that drive you crazy like the fact that the backup's network configuration had a different default gateway than the router I now use.
One of these days I'll need to break down and buy a new server and build a new software environment from scratch, but, for the time being, we're back online!
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Posted by David at July 23, 2007 10:10 PM