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Need advice on system restoral after disk crash



The good news: I started the backups early when I heard expensive noises,
and they finished OK.

The bad news: my 486's SCSI drive has crashed very hard. If exceeded the
MTBF by ~40%, so I don't have any complaints.

Now, here's what I used to have and have now:

Crashed system:

* 486 DX, 49MB ram, 2GB SCSI HD, running Apache, SSL, Mailman, and Sendmail
under RedHat 7.1.

The "standby" system that I was going to switch to "someday":

A Dell Pentium II, 64 MB ram, 9.3 GB SCSI drive, with an "everything"
install of redhat 7.3.

I have a tar archive of everything but the /proc and /mnt directories from
the old system, taken this afternoon, and now I'd appreciate any and all
advice about how to best restore the old system's functionality on the new
machine.

Bill "It's awfully quiet in here" Horne
--
Bill Horne
781 784-7287
I'm a LAN/WAN Specialist and I'm looking for a job. Please tell your
friends.





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