Thunderstorms begat a series of power outages which led me to belatedly put a UPS in place for the web server which houses these files. The mighty fine UPS has been “in place” next to a dead server for quite a few weeks now.
After the latest outage (which lasted all of 500 milliseconds) the poor thing didn’t want to boot all the way with fsck literally getting zapped. School took over all of my time unfortunately right about then, but now in the summer terms, a tiny bit of freedom has been afforded me.
An interesting series of Ubuntu installation and Knoppix live-CD’s later, the result is the words you are currently reading. NOTE TO SELF: if system says it can’t find fsck and you can’t find fsck then it’s NOT there. Trying simply putting a viable fsck in /sbin with the straggling remnants and everything might be OK.
Barring some network slowness, everything is coming back to life. Next task in line is to get the server migrated to a more easily updated installation…
Wish me luck!
