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 * 10:30 - final mass hey goes out before shutdown
-* 10:32 - access to the network is cut off.
+* 10:32 - access to the network is cut off. A few root holders take refuge in #blueblock on irc.linux.ie to discuss meeting later on.
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 === Friday Evening ===
-The admins meet up in DCU about 5/6pm. Atlas also comes down. There is much drawing on a whiteboard about what our plans should be. Most of the night is spent taking backups.
+The admins meet up in DCU about 5/6pm. Atlas also comes down. There is much drawing on a whiteboard about what our plans should be. Most of the night is spent taking backups. Getting some sort of mail processing in place is a priority, as we're not sure how long HEAnet/DCU will store our incoming mail for before giving up. Minerva's OS (and feck all else) is wiped and reinstalled by around midnight (after some extremely odd keyboard controller-related difficulties), and by the time we leave at around 1am, Deathray (not quite reinstalled, but isolated as much as possible from everything) is routing mail to inboxes.
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 We meet up again in DCU early on Saturday and start the re-install process. One of the red dells is setup to allow admins external access to the network so stuff can be done remotely.
-Minerva is reinstalled. Murphy continues to be shit.
+Murphy continues to be shit.
 Cynic is re-installed with solaris, and DNS moves there.
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 ===Monday ===
-Halenger builds ircd on minerva. Ubuntu starts working on carbon on Monday evening, after we discover that the ubuntu-server kernel hates the disk controller, and get a different kernel.
+Halenger builds ircd on minerva. Ubuntu starts working on carbon on Monday evening, after we discover that the ubuntu-server kernel hates the disk controller, and manually install a different kernel using a rescue shell.
 The new passwords went out on Monday. This required some epic hack scripting, since useradm was on one of the shite reddells, but that couldn't send email.
 === Tuesday ===
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 I fell asleep on the bus back from work, and woke up at Ballymun shopping center.
-Murphy still refuses to work
+Murphy still refuses to work. The Ubuntu installer CD refuses to talk to the upgraded version of the T2000 firmware (which we were told to upgrade by the installation instructions).
    {0} ok WORK DAMN YOU
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 Phaxx & atlas come to DCU to help make exim and mailman work. We also eat chinese.
+I (werdz) think it was around now (possibly Thursday or Friday) that I got ubuntu installed on murphy. Manually. After downgrading the firmware to version Poxy.ancient. The installer didn't seem to want to work at all (can't remember the exact list of problems), so it was installed using a rescue shell to create partitions, dpkg-bootstrap the system and install frivolous things like the kernel manually. Once this was done, Ubuntu booted, and things generally worked, but the serial console (well... what you got by typing console -f into the ALOM) randomly locked up. And some other things randomly broke. We decided this level of reliability wasn't what we were looking for in an OS. See [[Hardware:Murphy]] for the rest of this epic tale, and how it eventually ended up with Solaris 10, a full year later.
 === Thursday ===