On Monday 30 October 2006 09:16, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> sent a missive stating: > I just got a call from a school that has a mail server that wont boot. > > The info I have is: > > Booting ---more here----- > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type ----more here---- > > Uncompressing Linux > crc error > --system halted > > At the very least I need to get the home and mail files off of the > server. What would be the best approach here? Grab your favorite cd-based distro (knoppix comes to mind) pop that in there and see if the drives are still okay. FTP / SAMBA / SFTP the data off to another medium. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson rhavenn at rhavenn.net ------------------------------ "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't..."