freebsd hands on in westin?

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anyone around who can do a freebsd hands-on in westin this
eve or tomorrow?

rob austein, genuine good guy and hero of the revolution,
has an antique 2ru freebsd 4.11 box in my rack in on the
18th. boot blocks are mashed, there is no vga card, and
it is not talking over the serial. so it needs a cdrom
job. but rob is in cambridge mass and i am in hawai`i.

the suggested plan is in an email from rob i have stashed
at <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/051103.hands-on.txt>.

thanks!

randy

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we have it lined up for tomorrow morning. if we hit a snag,
you'll hear the rattling of my tin cup.

thanks!

randy

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anyone around who can do a freebsd hands-on in westin this
eve or tomorrow?
...

for general info and public thanks.

the first folk both near and freebsd-clueful to respond were
  Moses Leslie <moses@accretive-networks.net>
  David Kirchner <davidk@flyingcroc.net>

this morning (well, my morning:-), david went into our rack
  o fixed a miscabled floppy (yes, this machine is pre wwii
    and still has a floppy drive)
  o configed the bios to boot on power up (dead battery?)
  o stuck in a pci vga
  o stuck in a freebsd 4.x cd
  o fixed the boot block that we had mangled
  o and has not even expressed his disgust at the state
    of that rack

deep thanks to david and moses. i hope they'll have lunch
on us at icon or palace kitchen.

randy