um. was it w2k or the new bios.

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

Something of the above fragged my /usr partition. :(

Even tried other superblocks and the sort.  Had a good portion of it just
in lost+found.  I was screwed.  

Words to the wise:
Dont use a possibly corrupted e2fs lib or fsck by mistake.
Dont upgrade your bios like its a daily fun activity.
Do have debian rescue disks handy
Do keep the debian base files on another partition thats not used much
(!!! THIS KICKED ASS! I had it on my hd still!)
Do have a high speed link to the internet. :)
Dont try to run a system on a horribly corrupted /usr


Looks like it was probally the newest bp6 bios.  downgraded and
reinstalling debian.  oh well.  ftp.cs.wisc.edu is a fast mirror from
here.  If only onvoy got more bandwidth.

So, lessons learned:  stop fooling with w2k.  and (!) dont upgrade that
bios until you know of others who have.

Luckly /scratch and /home made it ok.  (!)

Oh. well. its like 5am.  Nighty night!

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