Mike’s World

Another dull day at work. Today I changed around our SAN documentation a bit, and did some brocade switch upgrades. Nothing all that exciting.

This afternoon I dealt with a stock certificate I received. I had to first of all get my signature verified, then get it mailed and insured to ameritrade. With luck it will make it there, and I wont need to deal with this paper stock thing anymore.

This evening, i think I figured out my Windows problem. The issue at hand was that I am using a Ethernet adapter that XP does not have a driver for, and using veritas netbackup IDR feature. IDR does not have an option for adding a 3rd party driver before loading the netbackup client. With luck, veritas netbackup IDR does have a option (ALT-F1) to get a command prompt. From there I swapped out the WInXP cd with the CD that came with my motherboard, and loaded up the network driver. Now, I can not simply right click on the network ‘hood to get to the interface configuration, so I first had to find the GUID type string for the interface (a simple ipconfig /all) then use a command netsh to set the IP address and DNS server. Now I have IP to my half dead XP box. I am going through the restore right now, and if this works, man will it be great!

I got quite a bit of little anoying tasks off of my plate today at work. Got some system builds finished up, some documentation updated, some SAN disk cleaned up, just a bunch of little stuff.

Tonight’s goal at home was to rebuild my windows box. I attempted to use the netbackup IDR feature, and did not get very far. First of all, I needed to get my floppy drive to work, as the Windows ASR feature still requires a floppy. I got my CD built, got my floppy built, got my hard drive attached, rebooted. Waited for the long format process, and then went in to the windows install. Once I got to the netbackup side of things, my pc could not talk to the backup server. Some more digging, no network driver. Yay!. I then rebooted, and forgot to remove my IDE drive (I use scsi primarily), booted windows to see whats going on, and Windows made my IDE drive the C drive, and my scsi drive the D drive. After this, Windows will no longer boot.

So much for IDR. guess I get to rebuild my windows box once again.