[21574] in Hotline Meeting
Prudential Macintosh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Wed Mar 9 13:03:51 1994
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 13:03:36 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, op@MIT.EDU
athena% webster prudential
pru.den.tial \pru:-'den-ch*l\ \-ch*-le-\ aj 1: of, relating to, or
proceeding from prudence 2: exercising prudence esp. in business matters -
pru.den.tial.ly av
Last night, I found the Macintosh named Prudential (the one with the
scanner in the test cluster) unbootable. After lots and lots of
hunting around for floppies today, I managed to get a Norton Emergency
Disk via mlbarrow. Running Norton fsck (which they call Disk Doctor
:-) on the Mac fixed the problem, repairing bitmaps, modtimes, and a
few other things.
The disk should be backed up, reformatted, and reinstalled from
backup. Some files were lost, and more may contain bad blocks, so if
a backup exists already, it might be useful.
There is a file at the top level on the boot disk ("Prudential") with
a name like "Norton Disk Repair Report" or some such that has a log of
what was done by Disk Doctor.
