Yesterday, like many times before, my server was unreachable. I suspected it crashed due some faulty hardware (like before) and that a simple fsck (with some forced mounting) would do the trick. Nevertheless, I got bored with this behavior and decided to get myself a new hard drive.
After buying a smacking 250GB (do the even get smaller nowadays?) disk, I found out the old disk was completely screwed up. /etc/ was no longer, and thus booting would become a little tricky.
Many hours passed in which I've learned all the beauty of different IDE cables (turned out I was using an old one and of course that was stupid with a drive bigger than 137 (?) GB), the beauty of not having a CD player attached to it and only one floppy disk, while four are needed. Finally, after way too many hours, I managed to get FreeBSD 6.2 installed (see, BOK, eventually I get up to date ;-)
God bless FreeBSD for storing the most important config files in /usr/local/etc/, rather than the disappeared /etc/! I was also rather pleased to find 99% of my /home/ directory accessible.
So, a lot of cursing, scanning the net, messing with my servboard and installing half CPAN again (I even got Plagger running again, so yeah, half CPAN (thanks Tatsuhiko!)). I'm finally back in the game (except for this insane blog and Apache2 not liking my precious and devious settings all the way)!
