I've finally recovered some of what broke down earlier this week. Long story short:
- The CPU of my web-/file-/mail-/dns- server is fubar, and the only other Pentium 4 CPU that I could find would not work
- I used the x86_64 CPU and mainboard from slevin (my girlfriend's desktop PC)
- Pulling out and stuffing back in the hardware wasn't difficult, but took me some time anyway (I did not have the right tools, go figure)
- Upgrading -slash- migrating Fedora 10 i386 to Fedora 12 x86_64 as you can imagine took me even longer, only to find out that a lot of configuration and other stuff relevant to various services were incompatible.
- The first thing I wanted to restore was email, and so I did (including external DNS), and then I left it all behind to do some other stuff.
- Now I've gotten around to rebuilding php-5.2 for Fedora 12 so that Drupal would actually work. Various kinds of functions Drupal-6.x uses are deprecated in php-5.3, and
- I had to restore name services internal to my network as well (the Pentium 4 CPU I got from this other machine made this other machine not boot up anymore)
The fun! ;-)
